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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$200K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
10 filings
$200K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
A Bradford CardDutko Worldwide, LLC12 filingsthrough 2010
Phillip Daniel DrujakDutko Worldwide, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: sound-shore-medical-center.
9 filings
$170K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1679111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1796111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6072111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3078111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2251111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3326111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3961111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th 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.
