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: novartis-inc.
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.
48 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
37 filings
$2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
34 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
28 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
11 filings
$620K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$170K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
1 filing
$60K 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.
118th Congress
Maintaining Investments in New Innovation Act
10 filingsthrough 2024
S. 832119th CongressEPIC Act of 20259 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5547118th CongressMaintaining Investments in New Innovation Act9 filingsthrough 2024
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376119th CongressImpacts and Outcomes for Health Career Training Act6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5539119th CongressPOW Priority Care Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
S. 3131119th CongressUSS Frank E. Evans Act5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2041114th CongressPromoting Life-Saving New Therapies for Neonates Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 27112th CongressPreserve Access to Affordable Generics Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1298111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1706111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 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.
Covered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee; Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Deputy Asst., Special Asst., Deputy Director EOP.
34 filingsthrough 2026
Derrick M WhiteForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Communications Director, Senator Orrin Hatch34 filingsthrough 2026
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Stupak, 1993-1994; Leg Director, Rep. Kind, 1999-2002; Chief of Staff, Rep. Kind, 2003-200934 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, Speaker John Boehner (2010-2013); Floor Assistant, House Speaker John Boehner (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Rep. John Boehner (2006 -2010); Staff Member, Rep. Pat Tiberi (2004-2006)32 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel M ToddTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Health Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Special Assistant, Office of Admin. Ct. - Medicare & Medicaid31 filingsthrough 2026
Paul EdattelTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Policy Assistant, Office of the Speaker; Professional Staff Member for the Majority at the House Energy & Commerce Committee; Legislative Assistant & Legislative Director, Rep. John Shadegg31 filingsthrough 2026
Susan HirschmannWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: COS, Rep.Van Hilleary & Majority Whip31 filingsthrough 2017
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood (2001-2002)29 filingsthrough 2026
Erin Book MullenWilliams and Jensen, PLLC26 filingsthrough 2017
Melinda M MaxfieldWilliams and Jensen, PLLC25 filingsthrough 2017
Matthew B HoekstraWilliams and Jensen, PLLC25 filingsthrough 2017
Christopher W HatcherWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Sch. C, Treasury. ; LD Rep. Scott McInnis20 filingsthrough 2017
Nicholas UehleckeTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor, Dept. of Health and Human Services; Professional Staff/Sr. Legislative Assistant, House Ways and Means Subcommittee19 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)19 filingsthrough 2023
Jenny DijamesWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: LA and LD, Rep. Bud Cramer18 filingsthrough 2014
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Williams, MichaelLegislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Brian Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Brian Jones (2018-2019)16 filingsthrough 2026
Jeff LucasTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor, Senator Bill Cassidy; Legislative Assistant/Sr. Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Larry Bucshon16 filingsthrough 2025
Jack Steven HartWilliams and Jensen, PLLC16 filingsthrough 2016
Taylor SextonTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response, HHS; Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Legislation, HHS; Health Care Policy Fellow, Representative Michael Burgess15 filingsthrough 2025
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight Reform Committee (2016-2016)15 filingsthrough 2022
Cheryl Lynn JaegerWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Sr. LA to Rep Christopher Cox13 filingsthrough 2017
Eric BergrenTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Brett Guthrie; Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Chief of Staff - Rep. Ron Lewis; Intern, Rep. Bill Baker11 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate11 filingsthrough 2021
EDWARD C. RENO iiiForbes-Tate11 filingsthrough 2021
Ted LehmanTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Tillis; Senate Judiciary Committee-Counsel, then Chief Counsel for Nominations and Senior Counsel; Senate Judiciary Committee-Staff Assistant and Legislative Assistant10 filingsthrough 2026
David A StarrWilliams and Jensen, PLLC9 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 32 of 45 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
