45 filings from 4 registrants · 2016–2021 · latest filed Jan 13, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$6.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$5.2M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.7M
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
39 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Insurance
INS
12 filings
$5.2M 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 — 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.
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act5 filingsthrough 2020
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: physicians-for-fair-coverage.
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.
S. 1266116th CongressProtecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills Act1 filingthrough 2019
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.
17 filings
through 2020
Robb WaltonBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing8 filingsthrough 2020
William CrozerBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing7 filingsthrough 2018
Edward PrettymanSims Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent and Constituent Services Representative, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE)5 filingsthrough 2020
Michaela SimsSims Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE); Legislative Director and Counsel, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE)5 filingsthrough 2020
Michele KimballInterel US4 filingsthrough 2019
Danielle Del CarloPhysicians for Fair CoverageCovered position: Manager, Government Relations3 filingsthrough 2018
Matt HoffmannBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing2 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 10 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
