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: prevent-blindness.
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.
19 filings
$687K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
15 filings
$680K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
1 filing
$40K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4502117th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1312114th CongressNational Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3749113th CongressMedicare Demonstration of Coverage for Low Vision Devices Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 8337116th CongressContinuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act2 filingsthrough 2020
S. 898114th CongressNational Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3681113th CongressAIM Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 3750110th CongressVision Preservation Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 507110th CongressVision Care for Kids Act of 20072 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position:
17 filingsthrough 2015
Jennifer PennockPrevent Blindness16 filingsthrough 2012
Jerrica MathisFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Congressional Fellow to Congresswoman Donna Christensen Sept 2009-May 2010; House Education and Workforce Committee May 2010- May 20119 filingsthrough 2018
PHILIP GOGLAS iiHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant8 filingsthrough 2026
Kira FlahertyHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant7 filingsthrough 2026
Brian AltmanFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP7 filingsthrough 2011
Dane ChristiansenHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant6 filingsthrough 2026
