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.
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: ucb-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.
TAX
60 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
14 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Insurance
INS
9 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
4 filings
$2M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
1 filing
$750K on those filings
Veterans
VET
1 filing
$64K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$60K 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
HELP Copays Act
13 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1375118th CongressHELP Copays Act11 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5397118th CongressJoe Fiandra Access to Home Infusion Act of 202310 filingsthrough 2024
S. 652118th CongressSafe Step Act10 filingsthrough 2024
S. 464117th CongressSafe Step Act10 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2368115th CongressRight to Try Act10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 878115th CongressRight to Try Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
S. 864119th CongressHELP Copays Act7 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3665118th CongressDefending American Jobs and Investment Act7 filingsthrough 2024
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.
32 filingsthrough 2021
Rachel Jones HenslerThe Nickles Group, LLC29 filingsthrough 2026
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 Shadegg24 filingsthrough 2023
Greg D'AngeloThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: White House Office of Management and Budget, Associate Director of Health Programs; Senate Committee on the Budget (Sen. Gregg, Sen. Sessions, and Sen. Enzi), Professional Staff Member.23 filingsthrough 2026
Jed PerryUcb, Inc.Covered position: Head, US Public Policy23 filingsthrough 2026
Michael SpiraVenn StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. McCarthy (D-NY); Deputy Chief of Staff - Rep. Perlmutter (D-CO)22 filingsthrough 2026
Mary Beth Savary TaylorThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Joint Economic Committee, General Counsel; U.S. Senator Connie Mack, Legislative Assistant.21 filingsthrough 2026
Brett BakerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Senators Crapo, Grassley, and Hatch)-Deputy Health Policy Director; Health Policy Dir.; Senior Policy Advsr; Policy Advisor. U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means (Reps. Camp and Ryan) Prof. Staff21 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph ZorzoliUcb, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2018
Melissa Francis (Formerly Bonicelli)Venn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director - Rep. Bill Archer (R-TX)10 filingsthrough 2025
Jonathan PyattVenn StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL); Legislative Counsel, Deputy Chief of Staff, Floor Assistant - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)8 filingsthrough 2025
Jeff LucasTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor, Senator Bill Cassidy; Legislative Assistant/Sr. Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Larry Bucshon8 filingsthrough 2023
Katherine RaabThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: House Cmte on Energy and Commerce, Prof. Staff; Congressman Mary Bono, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Elton Gallegly, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Leg. Corr.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Staff Asst8 filingsthrough 2019
Grant CouchVenn StrategiesCovered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide - Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)7 filingsthrough 2022
Justin Robert LiveseyVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Aide - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)6 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph G. FawknerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Snr Pol Adv for Rep. Carol D. Miller, Feb 20 - Jan 22.6 filingsthrough 2026
Erik Robert OlsonVenn StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI)6 filingsthrough 2022
Don NicklesThe Nickles Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2017
Jeff RicchettiRicchetti Incorporated5 filingsthrough 2015
Donald KentThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, Chief of Staff5 filingsthrough 2013
Doug BadgerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Economic PolicyUS Senate, Assistant Majority Leader, Chief of StaffUS Senate Rep. Policy Cmte, Staff Dir. / Asst. Staff Dir.5 filingsthrough 2012
Brian Arthur PomperAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Ch Intl Trade Cnsl, Intl Trade Cnsl, Senate Fin.4 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary PaulsenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl trd asst for pol, S Fin Comm, 2002-05.4 filingsthrough 2025
Jenny DijamesWilliams and Jensen, PLLC4 filingsthrough 2010
Susan HirschmannWilliams and Jensen, PLLC4 filingsthrough 2010
George OlsenWilliams and Jensen, PLLC4 filingsthrough 2010
Elizabeth LeeVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Aide - Sen. Baldwin (D-WI); Fellow - Sen. Clinton (D-NY); Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services; Senior Policy Advisor, HRSA, Department of Health & Human Services3 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 31 of 42 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
