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.
Health Issues
HCR
66 filings
$14.6M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
45 filings
$12.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 327 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1499116th CongressProtecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1416116th CongressAffordable Prescriptions for Patients Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
Richard F KinghamCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Partner49 filingsthrough 2026
Krista CarverCovington & Burling LLP39 filingsthrough 2026
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Joseph Pitts; Communications Director, Congressman Joseph Pitts; Press Secretary, Congressman Joseph Pitts; Special Assistant, Congressman Joseph Pitts26 filingsthrough 2022
Jennifer L PlitschCovington & Burling LLP24 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-research-manufacturers-of-america-inc.
TRD
7 filings
$2.8M 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.
116th Congress
Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 150118th CongressAffordable Prescriptions for Patients Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1503116th CongressOrange Book Transparency Act of 20207 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2375116th CongressPreserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3433118th CongressGive Kids a Chance Act of 20246 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1046116th CongressMedicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2038116th CongressState-Based, Market-Oriented, Prescription Drug Negotiations Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1224116th CongressStop STALLING Act6 filingsthrough 2020
S. 659116th CongressBiologic Patent Transparency Act6 filingsthrough 2020
S. 977116th CongressTransparent Drug Pricing Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2212115th CongressCREATES Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Gary HeimbergCovington & Burling LLP21 filingsthrough 2023
Erika F LietzanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Partner20 filingsthrough 2014
Michael SternCovington & Burling LLP19 filingsthrough 2026
Richard HertlingCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Director & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Acting Assistant AG, Office of Leg. Affairs, DoJ; Deputy Assistant AG, Office of Legal Policy, DoJ; Deputy CoS & Leg. Dir., Senator Lamar Alexander, Chief of Staff, Senator Peter Fitzgerald; Sr. Counsel, Senate Government Affairs; Chief Counsel, Senator Arlen Specter13 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew LazerowCovington & Burling LLP11 filingsthrough 2025
Jon KylCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: US Senator (1995-2013); US House Member (1987-1995)10 filingsthrough 2017
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel7 filingsthrough 2020
Marney L CheekCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Counsel7 filingsthrough 2010
Alan P LarsonCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor6 filingsthrough 2009
Jennifer Lynn ZacharyCovington & Burling LLP5 filingsthrough 2018
Paul SchmidtCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Partner5 filingsthrough 2009
John VeroneauCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Deputy US Trade Rep., Genl Counsel & Asst. USTR for Congressional Affairs, Asst. Secy & DAS, Leg. Affairs, Dept. of Defense; Chief of Staff, Sen. Susan Collins; Leg. Dir., Sen. William Frist; Legal Asst., Leg. Counsel, Leg. Dir., Sen. William Cohen3 filingsthrough 2020
