115 filings from 7 registrants · 2008–2023 · latest filed Oct 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$14.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$11.9M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.8M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Andrew WhitmanVarian Medical Systems, Inc.59 filingsthrough 2023
Maureen Zilly TracyVarian Medical Systems, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Office of Rep. John Shimkus36 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel M ToddTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Health Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Special Assistant, Office of Admin. Ct. - Medicare & Medicaid33 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 115 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: varian-medical-systems-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.
TRD
41 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
40 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
35 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
18 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Veterans
VET
9 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
9 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$500K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$470K on those filings
Education
EDU
2 filings
$470K 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
FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 523113th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 232113th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3548117th CongressVeterans Hearing Benefits Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2021
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.
Alicia HennieVarian Medical Systems, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Professional Staff Member - Senate HELP Committee
19 filingsthrough 2022
Peter WallaceVarian Medical Systems, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Correspondent, Office of Rep. Ric Keller18 filingsthrough 2018
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 Shadegg16 filingsthrough 2021
Valerie SindenVarian Medical Systems, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2022
Kristi RemingtonWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee9 filingsthrough 2018
Ashley DavisWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President9 filingsthrough 2018
Shimon SteinWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Program Manager, US Department of Justice; Legislative Correspondent, Senator John Ashcroft; Paid Intern, Represenative Robert Aderholt9 filingsthrough 2018
John DuttonVeritas Advocacy LLCCovered position: LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT FOR REP. MIKE CASTLE7 filingsthrough 2009
Cynthia BrownWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Ron Kind6 filingsthrough 2018
Shawn WhitmanKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant - Senator Alan Simpson6 filingsthrough 2012
Moses MercadoOgrCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt5 filingsthrough 2022
Gordon TaylorOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff/ Legislative Director/ Counsel, Rep. Chris John5 filingsthrough 2022
Dean AguillenOgrCovered position: Sr. Advisor/ Director of Member Services/ Floor Asst, Rep. Nancy Pelosi; Director Intergovt Affairs/ COS Cong. Affairs/ Special Asst, U.S. Department of Labor; LA, Rep. Max Sandlin5 filingsthrough 2022
Karissa WillhiteOgrCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Robert Menendez; Dep. Exec Director/ Policy Director, House Democratic Caucus; Sr. Legislative Asst, Rep. Robert Menendez5 filingsthrough 2022
Jerome MurrayOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Stacey Plaskett; Legislative Director, Rep. G.K. Butterfield; Associate Director, Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, Sen. Harry Reid; Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fattah; Staff Assistant, Rep. Chaka Fattah5 filingsthrough 2022
Christina Carrica HaleyVarian Medical Systems, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2021
Jeff LucasTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor, Senator Bill Cassidy; Legislative Assistant/Sr. Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Larry Bucshon4 filingsthrough 2021
Nicholas UehleckeTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor, Dept. of Health and Human Services; Professional Staff/Sr. Legislative Assistant, House Ways and Means Subcommittee4 filingsthrough 2021
Barrett ThornhillEast End Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2012
Michael Paul WoodyEast End Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2012
David Thomson MohlerEast End Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2012
Kelly Childress LangeEast End Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 24 of 31 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
