Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Formerly Known as Sepracor Inc.)
* Undetermined
56 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2023 · latest filed Apr 13, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$2.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.6M
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.
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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
40 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$280K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 6 114th Congress21st Century Cures Act7 filingsthrough 2016
- H.R. 6 115th CongressSUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act1 filingthrough 2017
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.
- Joan Kutcher Covington & Burling LLP51 filingsthrough 2022
- Muftiah Mccartin Covington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rul. Comm., Staff Dir. (09-10); House Rules Comm., Dep. Staff Dir.(07-08); House Rep. Sel. Comm. on Voting Irreg., Gen. Counsel, Detailed (07-08); House Comm. on Approp., Prof. Staff (06-07); House Off. of Parliamentarian: Assoc.(2005), etc.40 filingsthrough 2022
- Gary Heimberg Covington & Burling LLP31 filingsthrough 2023
- Layth Sami Elhassani Covington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel
The filings
The 20 most recent of 56 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-formerly-known-as-sepracor-inc.