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.
Defense
DEF
30 filings
$600K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
17 filings
$340K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 35 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1613118th CongressDrug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 127118th CongressPharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
Jesse AppletonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. James Talent; Senior Advisor, Department of Treasury31 filingsthrough 2026
Richard HoarBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff Mbr, House Cmte on ED. & the workforce Deputy Chief of Staff & Leg. Dir., U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis12 filingsthrough 2021
Ryan LosakBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Boozman; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Kline10 filingsthrough 2025
Luke StrimerBanner Public Affairs, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 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: the-cigna-group-and-subsidiaries-fka-cigna-corporation-and-subsidiaries.
17 filings
$340K 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.
118th Congress
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act
7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1542118th CongressDRUG Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20226 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1605117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20225 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1215116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Covered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, Rep. Nick Rahall
7 filingsthrough 2023
Matthew BormetBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ron Wyden; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Rick Larsen4 filingsthrough 2024
Brett ThompsonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. J. Talent1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
