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: nationwide-childrens-hospital.
$400K
fees reported
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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.
9 filings
$310K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
8 filings
$370K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$40K 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.
112th Congress
Pediatric Research Consortia Establishment Act
6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1462114th CongressProtecting Our Infants Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4302113th CongressProtecting Access to Medicare Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1284113th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1852112th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 958112th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20164 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3020114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20164 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act4 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1695114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20164 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4930113th CongressACE Kids Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 758111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 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.
