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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
10 filings
$510K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$240K 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.
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act4 filingsthrough 2024
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: sumitomo-pharma-america-inc.
$100K
fees reported
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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.
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.
through 2026
Sonja NesbitArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Legislation, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (2013-16); Deputy Staff Director, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, House Ways and Means Committee (2002-13)3 filingsthrough 2026
Peter Eric DuyshartArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Program Support Student Trainee, Secretarial Internship Program, U.S. DOT (2020); Intern, Rep. Bass (2015-2016); Extern, U.S. Attorneys Office, Central District of California (2015)3 filingsthrough 2026
