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.
Pharmacy
PHA
24 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
11 filings
$355K 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. 959113th CongressPharmaceutical Quality, Security, and Accountability Act5 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3089113th CongressCompounding Clarity Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
Amy TejralAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Ben Nelson13 filingsthrough 2015
Helen C SiracuseAtlantic Strategies Group LLC12 filingsthrough 2016
Tracy SpicerAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Political Director, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Special Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Staff Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy12 filingsthrough 2015
Elizabeth Macdonald BarnettAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Speechwriter, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Staff Assistant, Sen. Energy/Natural Resource Cmte
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 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: richies-specialty-pharmacy.
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
113th Congress
Drug Quality and Security Act
2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1735114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20161 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 3304113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20141 filingthrough 2013
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.
William Kirk BlalockFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House10 filingsthrough 2014
Kate HullFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen10 filingsthrough 2014
Michael ChappellFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering10 filingsthrough 2014
Mark Warren IsakowitzFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Press Secretary for Congressman Gilmor10 filingsthrough 2014
Kirsten ChadwickFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs10 filingsthrough 2014
Danielle MaurerFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB10 filingsthrough 2014
William PiperFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell10 filingsthrough 2014
Danielle MaurerFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Rules Committee ; ; Professional Staff Member, House Rules Committee ; ; Senior Floor Assistant, House Majority Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Republican Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Speaker ; ; Staff Assistant, Offie of Management and Budget ; ; Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB4 filingsthrough 2015
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson ; ; Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen4 filingsthrough 2015
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs4 filingsthrough 2015
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor4 filingsthrough 2015
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Aide, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Appropriations Coordinator, Senator McConnell ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell4 filingsthrough 2015
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education ; ; Special Assistant to the President ; ; Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House4 filingsthrough 2015
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Chip Pickering ; ; Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering4 filingsthrough 2015
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence3 filingsthrough 2015
Jennifer M DionneAtlantic Strategies Group LLC3 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 19 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
