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
6 filings
$80K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$30K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Harry Anastasios SporidisPowell Goldstein LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Steven StrannePowell Goldstein LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
James GouldCapitol Counsel LLC3 filingsthrough 2010
David JonesCapitol Counsel LLC3 filingsthrough 2010
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: theragenics-corporation.
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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
1 filingthrough 2010
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.
3 filings
through 2010
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC3 filingsthrough 2010
Catherine FinleyCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Aging Committee ; ; Sr. Health Policy Advisor, Senator Gordon Smith ; ; Sr. Health Policy Advisor, Senator Olympia Snowe ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Mike DeWine3 filingsthrough 2010
Tucker ShumackCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax & Finance Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Small Business ; ; LA, Sen. Johnny Isakson; LA, Sen. Paul Coverdell3 filingsthrough 2010
Steven StranneBryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP3 filingsthrough 2010
Harry Anastasios SporidisBryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLPCovered position: Sr LA, Rep Jim Greenwood3 filingsthrough 2010
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ross ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln3 filingsthrough 2010
Jim GottliebCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV ; ; Staff Director, Senate Veterans Committee ; ; Staff Director/General Counsel, House Gov Ops Cmte3 filingsthrough 2010
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th ; ; Ranking Member, House Ways and Means Committee ; ; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation3 filingsthrough 2010
Denise Henry MorriseyCapitol Counsel LLC3 filingsthrough 2010
Richard Lyles SullivanCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant ot the House Majority Leader2 filingsthrough 2010
William S OwenAsset & Equity CorporationCovered position: President2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
