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
31 filings
$810K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$900K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20095 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 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: virtua-health.
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.
14 filings
$770K on those filings
Defense
DEF
12 filings
$430K on those filings
Veterans
VET
8 filings
$300K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$120K 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.
H.R. 6599110th CongressMilitary Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3301110th CongressMilitary Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2500112th CongressEqual Access and Parity for Multi-Campus Hospitals Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20132 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 452112th CongressMedicare Decisions Accountability Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2467112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3295112th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Barry D RhoadsThe Rhoads Group14 filingsthrough 2010
Gary J KrumpThe Rhoads GroupCovered position: Chair & Chief Judge-VA Board of Contract App11 filingsthrough 2010
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)10 filingsthrough 2011
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats10 filingsthrough 2011
Susann M EdwardsCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Confidental Asst-Sect of Commerce-Sch C6 filingsthrough 2012
Barry D RhoadsCassidy & Associates, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2012
Gary J KrumpCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Chair & Chief Judge, VA Board of Contract App.6 filingsthrough 2012
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress5 filingsthrough 2013
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Department of Labor, HUD5 filingsthrough 2013
Elizabeth HoganQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: SpcAsstDOC,AssocDir EOP,Intern Rep J McCrery4 filingsthrough 2010
Harriet James MelvinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Professional Staff Rep. Charles Hatcher3 filingsthrough 2008
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)3 filingsthrough 2008
David LugarQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)3 filingsthrough 2008
Jack QuinnQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Counsel Pres Clinton, CoS Vice Pres Gore3 filingsthrough 2008
Kevin D KayesQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ChfCounSenReid,StaffDirSenCSTCom,AstParlSen3 filingsthrough 2008
Marc LampkinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Staff/CounE&LCom,GCounHRC,ConSecCvrdll3 filingsthrough 2008
