83 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Jan 4, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2M
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.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
61 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
38 filings
$920K on those filings
Welfare
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2446114th CongressTo amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require the use of electronic visit verification for personal care services furnished under the Medicaid program, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
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: rescare.
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.
WEL
24 filings
$625K on those filings
Education
EDU
22 filings
$509K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$270K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$140K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$50K 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.
113th Congress
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2646114th CongressHelping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3280112th CongressCompanionship Exemption Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6042115th CongressTo amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to delay the reduction in Federal medical assistance percentage for Medicaid personal care services furnished without an electronic visit verification system, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act1 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 3200111th 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.
Abell Public Policy
5 filingsthrough 2015
Mary Lacey ReutherBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing.5 filingsthrough 2009
Robert WoodBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing.5 filingsthrough 2009
Jennifer Larkin LukawskiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing.5 filingsthrough 2009
Shalla RossBgr Government Affairs1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
