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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
88 filings
$8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
85 filings
$8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 86 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 589113th CongressTo amend the National Organ Transplant Act to prevent the sale of bone marrow and umbilical cord blood, and for other purposes.16 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1230111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 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: national-marrow-donor-program.
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.
54 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
10 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
9 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$726K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
7 filings
$689K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$440K 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.
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 716111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3219115th CongressMake America Secure Appropriations Act, 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3354115th CongressMake America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3358115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20186 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1771115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1718111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2107111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6081111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3751111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S.Res. 205111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20096 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Chad RamseyNational Marrow Donor ProgramCovered position: Director, Legislative Relations
