Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1706111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1951110th CongressFair Medicaid Drug Payment Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4899111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: mylan-laboratories.
CPT
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
110th Congress
Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5839110th CongressSafeguarding America's Pharmaceuticals Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6344110th CongressResponsive Government Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2731110th CongressTom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 573111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 501111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3101110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3118110th CongressPreserving Access to Medicare Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
