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.
Health Issues
HCR
47 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$690K 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.
H.R. 3631118th CongressState Strategic Stockpile Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2080118th CongressState Strategic Stockpile Act of 20237 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Amanda ArnoldValneva USA, Inc.Covered position: Senator Tester, legislative staff 2006-200917 filingsthrough 2025
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec for Leg.-HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg.-HSS; Staff Dir., Sub Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.15 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg.- HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff. Sen. Cmte. on Finance15 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth T MurrayTarplin, Downs & Young, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 47 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: valneva-usa-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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Leg. Asst., Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Sen. Bob Graham
15 filingsthrough 2026
Pamela SmithTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Sen. HELP Cmte.; Staff Dir., Sen. HELP Cmte.; Counsel to Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice; Spec. Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept. of Justice; Counsel and LA, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun15 filingsthrough 2026
Margaret JosephTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: CoS for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Bobby Bright, CoS for Rep. Jim Matheson, Clerk for House Rules Cmte.15 filingsthrough 2026
Gary HeimbergCovington & Burling LLP14 filingsthrough 2023
Laura FriedelTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Sen. Zell Miller, Leg. Dir., Sen. Richard Shelby, Clerk, Staff Dir., Sen. Appropriations Committee11 filingsthrough 2025
John KanarasValneva USA, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2024
Joan KutcherCovington & Burling LLP10 filingsthrough 2022
Parick Braerton CarrollTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg Asst. Rep. Ray LaHood, Leg Dir. Rep. Kevin Yoder, PSM Senate Appropriations Cmte.9 filingsthrough 2026
Charlotte Spears IvancicTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Counsel, Sen. Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Maj. Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Cmte.; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner9 filingsthrough 2024
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Helath, Ways and Means Cmte; Sr. Policy Adivsor, Maj. Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Maj. Whip McCarthy; Prof. Staff, Republicans Study Cmte.; Leg. Aide, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price9 filingsthrough 2024
Kimberly Lynn BrandtTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel and Dir. External Affairs - HHS OIG; Prin. Dep. Administrator for Policy and Operations, and Dir. of Medicare Program Integrity - CMS; Chief Oversight and General Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance9 filingsthrough 2024
Peter FiseTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Health Counsel for Sen. Cmte on Finance, Health Counsel for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Staff Assistant for House Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform9 filingsthrough 2024
Howard BermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Member, United States House of Representatives9 filingsthrough 2023
Nicole CarelliDb3, LLC (Fka the Daschle Group)6 filingsthrough 2024
Wade AckermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Sr. FDA Counsel, US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions6 filingsthrough 2022
Thomas DaschleBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Former United States Senator4 filingsthrough 2024
Thomas DaschleDb3, LLC (Fka the Daschle Group)Covered position: Former United States Senator4 filingsthrough 2024
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Representative Joe Pitts, Chief of Staff, Communications Director, and Special Assistant4 filingsthrough 2023
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel3 filingsthrough 2023
Caitlin KouryCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Law Clerk, Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care2 filingsthrough 2023
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rules Committee, Staff Director, Deputy Staff Director; General Counsel (Detailed), House Select Committee on Voting Irregularities; House Committee on Appropriations, Professional Staff, House Office of Parliamentarian, Assoc., Asst., Clerk2 filingsthrough 2021
Nicole Error)Db3, LLC (Fka the Daschle Group)1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 20 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
