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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medicare/Medicaid
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5 filings
$240K 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec for Leg.-HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg.-HSS; Staff Dir., Sub Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.6 filingsthrough 2024
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg.- HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff. Sen. Cmte. on Finance6 filingsthrough 2024
Elizabeth T MurrayTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Leg. Asst., Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Sen. Bob Graham6 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: octaviant-financial-inc.
Charlotte Spears Ivancic
Tarplin, Downs & Young, LLC
Covered position: Leg. Counsel, Sen. Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Maj. Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Cmte.; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner
6 filingsthrough 2024
Pamela SmithTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Sen. HELP Cmte.; Staff Dir., Sen. HELP Cmte.; Counsel to Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice; Spec. Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept. of Justice; Counsel and LA, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun6 filingsthrough 2024
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Helath, Ways and Means Cmte; Sr. Policy Adivsor, Maj. Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Maj. Whip McCarthy; Prof. Staff, Republicans Study Cmte.; Leg. Aide, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price6 filingsthrough 2024
Kimberly Lynn BrandtTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel and Dir. External Affairs - HHS OIG; Prin. Dep. Administrator for Policy and Operations, and Dir. of Medicare Program Integrity - CMS; Chief Oversight and General Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance6 filingsthrough 2024
Margaret JosephTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: CoS for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Bobby Bright, CoS for Rep. Jim Matheson, Clerk for House Rules Cmte.6 filingsthrough 2024
Peter FiseTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Health Counsel for Sen. Cmte on Finance, Health Counsel for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Staff Assistant for House Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform6 filingsthrough 2024
Laura FriedelTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Sen. Zell Miller, Leg. Dir., Sen. Richard Shelby, Clerk, Staff Dir., Sen. Appropriations Committee5 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 10 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
