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: pharmaceutical-industry-labor-management-association-pilma.
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.
25 filings
$750K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
24 filings
$720K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
18 filings
$720K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
1 filing
$30K 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.
S. 113118th CongressPrescription Pricing for the People Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2024
S. 127118th CongressPharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1542118th CongressDRUG Act2 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20071 filingthrough 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.
Callan James SmithDentons US LLPCovered position: Policy Research Assistant, Senate Finance Committee; Staff Assistant to Senator Max Baucus12 filingsthrough 2024
Charles ("Chuck") E. HarpleThe Harple Group, LLCCovered position: N/A9 filingsthrough 2026
Ron KlinkRon Klink and Associates1 filingthrough 2008
Mick NardelliRon Klink and Associates1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
