28 filings from 3 registrants · 2014–2022 · latest filed Jan 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$270K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$270K
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.
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
6 filings
$100K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 83113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3799117th CongressPREVENT Pandemics Act1 filingthrough 2022
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Dan RenbergArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Member, Board of Directors, Ex-Im Bank (1999-2003); Leg. Director and Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Arlen Specter (1994-1998)11 filingsthrough 2021
Alex PinsonDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Schedule C appointee, Dept. of Health and Human Services; Senior Legis. Asst. and Counsel (and other positions), Rep. Hal Rogers; Intern, Rep. Cory Gardner; Intern, Rep. Trey Gowdy6 filingsthrough 2022
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: sab-biotherapeutics-inc.
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.
BUD
4 filings
$20K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$10K 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.
6 filingsthrough 2022
Jennifer BellChamber Hill StrategiesCovered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Finance Committee2 filingsthrough 2014
Michaela SimsChamber Hill StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director and Counsel, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE)2 filingsthrough 2014
Michael FriedbergDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Staff Director, Rail Subcmte., House Transp. & Infrastructure Cmte.; Professional Staff, House Appropriations Cmte.1 filingthrough 2021
