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
30 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
9 filings
$540K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5054114th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg.- HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff. Sen. Cmte. on Finance15 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth T MurrayTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Leg. Asst., Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Sen. Bob Graham15 filingsthrough 2026
Charlotte Spears IvancicTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Counsel, Sen. Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Maj. Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Cmte.; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner15 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 32 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: quest-diagnostics.
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.
6 filings
$360K 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.
114th Congress
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017
3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3040114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 8188117th CongressSaving Access to Laboratory Services Act2 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4449117th CongressSaving Access to Laboratory Services Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3354115th CongressMake America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 601115th CongressContinuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 8188118th CongressStealthing Act of 20241 filingthrough 2023
S. 4449118th CongressRiver Democracy Act1 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 5325114th CongressContinuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act1 filingthrough 2016
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.
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Helath, Ways and Means Cmte; Sr. Policy Adivsor, Maj. Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Maj. Whip McCarthy; Prof. Staff, Republicans Study Cmte.; Leg. Aide, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price
15 filingsthrough 2026
Peter FiseTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Health Counsel for Sen. Cmte on Finance, Health Counsel for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Staff Assistant for House Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform15 filingsthrough 2026
Laura FriedelTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Sen. Zell Miller, Leg. Dir., Sen. Richard Shelby, Clerk, Staff Dir., Sen. Appropriations Committee11 filingsthrough 2025
James DavidsonPolsinelli PC10 filingsthrough 2017
JULIUS W HOBSON jrPolsinelli PC10 filingsthrough 2017
Harry Anastasios SporidisPolsinelli PC10 filingsthrough 2017
Julie E ShroyerPolsinelli PC10 filingsthrough 2017
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec for Leg.-HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg.-HSS; Staff Dir., Sub Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.9 filingsthrough 2024
Pamela SmithTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Sen. HELP Cmte.; Staff Dir., Sen. HELP Cmte.; Counsel to Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice; Spec. Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept. of Justice; Counsel and LA, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun9 filingsthrough 2024
Kimberly Lynn BrandtTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel and Dir. External Affairs - HHS OIG; Prin. Dep. Administrator for Policy and Operations, and Dir. of Medicare Program Integrity - CMS; Chief Oversight and General Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance9 filingsthrough 2024
Margaret JosephTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: CoS for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Bobby Bright, CoS for Rep. Jim Matheson, Clerk for House Rules Cmte.9 filingsthrough 2024
Thomas J SpulakKing & Spalding LLP9 filingsthrough 2023
George C CrawfordKing & Spalding LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff: Rep. Pelosi (CA-12)9 filingsthrough 2023
Allison F KassirKing & Spalding LLP9 filingsthrough 2023
Mark D. PolstonKing & Spalding LLP9 filingsthrough 2023
Parick Braerton CarrollTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg Asst. Rep. Ray LaHood, Leg Dir. Rep. Kevin Yoder, PSM Senate Appropriations Cmte.3 filingsthrough 2024
Jeff ReczekTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Dir. CDC Washington, Professional Staff Sen. Appropriations Cmte, Program Examiner OMB, Program Analyst Dept. of Transportation2 filingsthrough 2026
Alexander ("Ander") M. CrenshawKing & Spalding LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative (FL-04), 2001-20172 filingsthrough 2023
Kendrick B MeekKing & Spalding LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative (FL-17) 2002-20102 filingsthrough 2023
Alan WheatPolsinelli PC1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 16 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
