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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
36 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
36 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Veterans
VET
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20147 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5293115th CongressTo make technical amendments to update statutory references to certain provisions that were formerly classified to title 50, Appendix, United States Code.5 filingsthrough 2017
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: university-of-pittsburgh-medical-center-health-system.
16 filings
$770K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
7 filings
$560K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$230K 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.
115th Congress
Patient Advocacy Transparency Act
5 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3219115th CongressMake America Secure Appropriations Act, 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20164 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20164 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4870113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3800112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2011
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: Confidential Asst-Sect of Commerce-Schedule C
18 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew Engel ForbesCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Senior LA Rep Keller & LSA T&I Committee (Aviation)15 filingsthrough 2017
Charles SydnorCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Rep. Wilson- legislative assistant/counsel; Senator Boozman- legislative assistant/counsel; Senator Burr- legislative assistant/counsel13 filingsthrough 2020
