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-patient-advocate-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.
22 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
9 filings
$481K on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
1 filing
$100K on those filings
Insurance
INS
1 filing
$83K 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.
113th Congress
Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2013
4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2245112th CongressPreserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3839112th CongressDrug Shortage Prevention Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 296112th CongressPreserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3187112th CongressFood and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 901111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1624111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 647116th CongressPalliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 4209112th CongressPatients' Access to Treatments Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1558111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
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.
