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.
Patricia Louise DeloatcheSidley Austin LLPCovered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Orrin Hatch; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, and Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Bilirakis35 filingsthrough 2020
Eric RasmussenSquire Patton Boggs16 filingsthrough 2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 74 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: sunovion-pharmaceuticals-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.
14 filings
$520K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$150K 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 2011
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.
David FarberSquire Patton Boggs15 filingsthrough 2013
Gary PalmquistThorn Run Partners13 filingsthrough 2018
Catherine FinleyThorn Run PartnersCovered position: StaffDir,SenAging;SrHlthPolAdv:Smith,Snowe;LegCorr,DeWine13 filingsthrough 2018
Billy WynneThorn Run Partners12 filingsthrough 2017
Jessie Howe BrairtonThorn Run Partners10 filingsthrough 2017
