Novartis Services, Inc. — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Foreign owner disclosed
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Novartis Services, Inc.
District of Columbia
34 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2017 · latest filed Jan 23, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.6M
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: novartis-services-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.
BUD
10 filings
$570K on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$130K 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
Vaccine Shortage Preparedness Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4704110th CongressMedicare Improvement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4705110th CongressVaccines for the Uninsured Adult Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3678110th CongressVietnam Human Rights Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2641115th CongressPromoting Life-Saving New Therapies for Neonates Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
S. 540115th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5182114th CongressPromoting Life-Saving New Therapies for Neonates Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4899111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4990110th CongressVaccines for Children Access Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4991110th CongressVaccine Shortage Preparedness Act of 20083 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.
10 filingsthrough 2011
Thomas B SparkmanPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Intern, Senate HELP Committee9 filingsthrough 2011
David MorrisonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: House Approps. Defense Subcmttee, Staff Dir.7 filingsthrough 2009
Anne Marie PolakPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Correspondent for Rep. Mike Ferguson6 filingsthrough 2011
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Cong. Black Caucus // CoS/Deputy Asst. Secy, DOL/Empl't Stds. Adm. // Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor5 filingsthrough 2017
Binta BeardPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Health Policy Adviser, Sen. Dick Durbin5 filingsthrough 2016
Moses MercadoOgrCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff, Gephardt; Chief of Staff, Green5 filingsthrough 2015
