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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.75 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 Finance75 filingsthrough 2026
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham
The filings
The 20 most recent of 332 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: vertex-pharmaceuticals-incorporated.
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
116 filings
$30.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
108 filings
$20M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
57 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
24 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
22 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
14 filings
$5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$3.5M on those filings
District of Columbia
DOC
1 filing
$1.2M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$80K 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.
114th Congress
21st Century Cures Act
29 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.19 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2030114th CongressAdvancing Targeted Therapies for Rare Diseases Act of 201619 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act17 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2543116th CongressPrescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 201917 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7142118th CongressAlternatives to PAIN Act16 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3832118th CongressAlternatives to PAIN Act15 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 460113th CongressPatients' Access to Treatments Act of 201315 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 202113 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act13 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3117th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act11 filingsthrough 2022
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.
G. K. ButterfieldD-North Carolina-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 1990, H.R. 2461 +4 more
143 filings
9 lobbyists
Bobby L. RushD-Illinois-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
126 filings
9 lobbyists
James R. LangevinD-Rhode Island-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 2461, H.R. 4521 +2 more
105 filings
7 lobbyists
A. Donald McEachinD-Virginia-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
98 filings
7 lobbyists
Ed PerlmutterD-Colorado-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
98 filings
7 lobbyists
Eddie Bernice JohnsonD-Texas-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
98 filings
7 lobbyists
Kathleen M. RiceD-New York-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
98 filings
7 lobbyists
Michael F. DoyleD-Pennsylvania-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
98 filings
7 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
67 filingsthrough 2024
James DerderianStanton Park GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Commerce Committee; Legislative Advisor to Rep. Tom Bliley65 filingsthrough 2026
Valerie HenryStanton Park GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Greg Walden; Legislative Assistant to Sen. John Warner and Sen. Mike Crapo61 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth T MurrayTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham53 filingsthrough 2026
Samantha VentimigliaVertex Pharmaceuticals IncorporatedCovered position: Sen. Olympia Snowe Senate Campaign 7/94-11/9451 filingsthrough 2023
Charlotte Spears IvancicTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Majority Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Committee; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner48 filingsthrough 2026
Erin StrawnStanton Park GroupCovered position: SA, EA, LA, LD Rep. C. Weldon46 filingsthrough 2021
Pamela SmithTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Counselor to the Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept of Justice; Spec Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept of Justice; Counsel and LA, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun41 filingsthrough 2026
JOSEPH RACHINSKY jrStanton Park Group36 filingsthrough 2026
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Health, W&M Cmte; Sr. Policy Advisor, Majority Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Majority Whip McCarthy; Professional Staff, Republican Study Cmte.; Leg. Aid, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price35 filingsthrough 2026
Cheryl Lynn JaegerWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Shared employee, Ofc of the Speaker & ofc VA 7; Sr Policy Adv, Majority Leader, Rep E Cantor; Sr Policy Adv, Republican Whip, Rep E Cantor; Sr Policy Adv, Majority Whip, Rep R Blunt; Prof Staff House Committee on E&C; Sr LA to Rep C. Cox35 filingsthrough 2023
Matthew O SchumakerVertex Pharmaceuticals IncorporatedCovered position: Legislative Aid to Congressman Vic Snyder (AR-02) 2002-2003; Senior Legislative Assistant & Communications Director to Congresswoman Darlene Hooley (OR-05); Executive Director, New Democrat Coalition, 2007-2008.29 filingsthrough 2026
Linda E TarplinTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sp. Asst. to the Pres. for Leg. Affairs; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS29 filingsthrough 2015
Scott BarnesVertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated28 filingsthrough 2022
Bryan William WellsStanton Park GroupCovered position: Policy Advisor, Senator Pat Roberts22 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher W HatcherWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Sch. C, Treasury; Associate Staff, House Rules Committee; LD, Rep. Scott McInnis22 filingsthrough 2022
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 - Senate Cmte. on Finance20 filingsthrough 2024
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.20 filingsthrough 2023
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.18 filingsthrough 2026
Richard Mather RussellStanton Park GroupCovered position: Pro Staff, House Merchant Marine & Fisheries16 filingsthrough 2016
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 Reform15 filingsthrough 2026
