Vgm Group, Inc. — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Vgm Group, Inc.
Iowa
17 filings from 3 registrants · 2012–2015 · latest filed Jan 19, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$510K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$510K
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.
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: vgm-group-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.
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
7 filings
$210K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
6 filings
$180K 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.
113th Congress
Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2013
5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2329113th CongressAdministrative Relief and Accurate Medicare Payments Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1012113th CongressMedicare Audit Improvement Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1516114th CongressEnsuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 148114th CongressMedicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Improvement Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1695114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2810113th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3020114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4302113th CongressProtecting Access to Medicare Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5083113th CongressMedicare DMEPOS Audit Improvement and Reform (AIR) Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1871113th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
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.
through 2013
Chris PurdyVan Scoyoc Associates2 filingsthrough 2013
Liz WilliamsLiz Williams and Company2 filingsthrough 2013
Katherine VanlandinghamVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: LegAsst/Corresp Dir, Senator Sam Brownback2 filingsthrough 2012
