24 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2014 · latest filed Oct 17, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$925K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$925K
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.
Health Issues
HCR
23 filings
$925K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
21 filings
$840K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2643110th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
Nancy L JohnsonBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Former Member of Congress22 filingsthrough 2014
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: st-lukes-episcopal-health-system.
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.
2 filings
$85K 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 2014
Laine Glisson OliverBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz10 filingsthrough 2014
Wyeth WiedemanBen Barnes Group LP3 filingsthrough 2008
Kent CapertonBen Barnes Group LP3 filingsthrough 2008
Ben BarnesBen Barnes Group LP3 filingsthrough 2008
Patsy Lee ThomassonBen Barnes Group LP3 filingsthrough 2008
Lane M LuskeyThe Loeffler Group1 filingthrough 2008
Marcus A KrakerThe Loeffler Group1 filingthrough 2008
Thomas G LoefflerThe Loeffler Group1 filingthrough 2008
Hans C RickhoffThe Loeffler Group1 filingthrough 2008
Travis Lee RichmondThe Loeffler GroupCovered position: Legislative Aide, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
