36 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 21, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$2.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.4M
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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
36 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Postal
POS
1 filing
$60K 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
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3790111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
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: quality-diabetes-care-coalition.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
5 filings
through 2008
S. 3101110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3144110th CongressMedicare DMEPOS Competitive Acquisition Reform Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3118110th CongressPreserving Access to Medicare Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
S. 1789112th Congress21st Century Postal Service Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
12 filingsthrough 2012
Michael LewanBrown Rudnick LLPCovered position: CoS, Rep Solarz(88); CoS, Sen Lieberman(89-93)10 filingsthrough 2012
Jonathan RenfrewBrown Rudnick LLPCovered position: Sp Asst to Vice-Chair, CoS, Rep Larson(99-08)7 filingsthrough 2011
