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.
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
6 filings
$300K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 3116110th CongressOutpatient Mental Health Modernization Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
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: national-association-for-behavioral-health.
National Association for Behavioral Health — Receipts Report
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
1 filing
through 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
H.R. 4872111th 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.
5 filingsthrough 2009
Thomas A ScullyAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Administrator, Consultant, CMS; Counselor to the Dir.,5 filingsthrough 2009
Jennifer BellAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Health Pol. Adv'r, Sen Fin Comm; Leg. Ass't, Sen. J. Thune5 filingsthrough 2009
Mark RayderAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Leg. Ass't, Rep. Tom Latham.4 filingsthrough 2009
Harry Anastasios SporidisBryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLPCovered position: LA for Rep E Clay Shaw and Rep Mike BilirakisSr. LA for Rep Jim Greenwood2 filingsthrough 2010
