30 filings from 4 registrants · 2011–2014 · latest filed Jan 30, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$2.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$789K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
30 filings
$2.5M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3590112th CongressIndonesian Family Refugee Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 4872112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on certain non-toric shaped polarized materials of 80 mm or less in diameter.2 filingsthrough 2011
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Suzanne Marie McdonaldOrexigen Therapeutics, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2014
Paul KimFoley Hoag LLPCovered position: Senator Kennedy Director For Health Policy;, Congressman Waxman counsel;, Senator Pryor staff13 filingsthrough 2014
J Kevin BrennanFoley Hoag LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff for Representative Rosa DeLauro;, Legislative Director for Representative, Sherrod Brown13 filingsthrough 2014
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: orexigen-therapeutics-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.
Isa MirzaFoley Hoag LLP
5 filingsthrough 2014
John Kevin BrennanFaegre Baker Daniels Consulting4 filingsthrough 2014
Rodger CurrieFoley Hoag LLPCovered position: Majority Counsel of the Committee on Energy, and Commerce in the U.S. House, of Representatives3 filingsthrough 2012
Paul KimOrexigen Therapeutics, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2012
Kevin BrennanOrexigen Therapeutics, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2012
Suzanne Marie McdonaldMcdonald Consultang Formerly Suzanne Mcdonald3 filingsthrough 2011
Dayle Lewis CristinzioFoley Hoag LLPCovered position: Sen Harry Reid, Leg Dir; Rep Steny Hoyer, Sr Leg, Asst; Sen Charles Schumer, Dir Econ Dev&Approp2 filingsthrough 2012
Dayle Lewis CristinzioOrexigen Therapeutics, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Harry Reid, Leg Dir; Rep Steny Hoyer, Sr Leg Asst1 filingthrough 2012
