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
17 filings
$600K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
14 filings
$420K 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
The 15 most-cited of 40 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 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: vanguard-health-systems.
fees reported
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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.
H.R. 1473112th CongressDepartment of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3082112th CongressBiennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1852112th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 297113th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.4 filingsthrough 2013
S. 958112th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 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.
Steven JenningCapitol Health Group, LLCCovered position: Regulation, House Sm. Business Cmte7 filingsthrough 2012
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress3 filingsthrough 2010
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: U.S. Dept. of Labor, HUD3 filingsthrough 2010
Dallas SweezyMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Dir, CMS; Dir, Dept. of Ag; LD, Dept. of Labor3 filingsthrough 2010
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, U.S. Treasury2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
