12 filings from 2 registrants · 2021–2022 · latest filed Jan 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.1M
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.
Science/Technology
SCI
6 filings
$550K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$420K 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.
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20225 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Daniel M ToddTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Health Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Special Assistant, Office of Amin Ctr. Medicare & Medicaid8 filingsthrough 2022
Paul EdattelTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Policy Assistant, Office of the Speaker; Professional Staff Member for the Majority at the House Energy & Commerce Committee; Legislative Assistant & Legislative Director, Rep. John Shadegg8 filingsthrough 2022
Jeff LucasTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor, Senator Bill Cassidy; Legislative Assistant/Sr. Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Larry Bucshon8 filingsthrough 2022
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: synthetic-biology-coalition.
Synthetic Biology Coalition — Receipts Report
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Nicholas UehleckeTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor, Dept. of Health and Human Services; Professional Staff/Sr. Legislative Assistant, House Ways and Means Subcommittee
8 filingsthrough 2022
Arshi SiddiquiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sr pol adv & cnsl for Spkr Pelosi, Oct 03-May 09; Ways & Means cnsl, Rep Becerra, 1998-May 007 filingsthrough 2022
Mario RamirezAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld7 filingsthrough 2022
Clete WillemsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dpty Asst to the Pres, 18-19; Spl Assist to Prest, 17-18; Chief Cnsl for Neg, Leg, and Admin Law, USTR, 15-17; Lgl Advr to the WTO, USTR, 12-15; Assist Gen Cnsl, USTR, 09-12; Cnsl and Bud Anlst, House Bud Comm, 07-09; LD, Rep. Paul Ryan, 06-07; LA, R6 filingsthrough 2022
Taylor SextonTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response, HHS; Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Legislation, HHS; Health Care Policy Fellow, Representative Michael Burgess5 filingsthrough 2022
Joseph G. FawknerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Snr Pol Adv for Rep. Carol D. Miller, Feb 20 - Jan 22.3 filingsthrough 2022
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm3 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
