33 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed Jan 14, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$687K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$237K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$450K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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-osteoporosis-foundation.
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.
MED
4 filings
$80K 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
Medicare Fracture Prevention and Osteoporosis Testing Act of 2008
8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2693116th CongressTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to, and utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits under part B of the Medicare program by establishing a minimum payment amount under such part for bone mass measurement.7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1894111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 769111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2268110th CongressMother's Day Centennial Commemorative Coin Act7 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3856111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1898115th CongressTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to, and utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits under part B of the Medicare program by establishing a minimum payment amount under such part for bone mass measurement.5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2883110th CongressMother's Day Centennial Commemorative Coin Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3160115th CongressA bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to, and utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits under part B of the Medicare program by establishing a minimum payment amount under such part for bone mass measurement.2 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3841115th CongressSNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
S. 1688115th CongressEmpowering Medicare Seniors to Negotiate Drug Prices Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
S. 2011115th CongressMedicare Drug Price Negotiation Act1 filingthrough 2017
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.
