49 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2021 · latest filed Jun 3, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
48 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$70K 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 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1185114th CongressResponsible Additions and Increases to Sustain Employee Health Benefits Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1196114th CongressHealth Savings Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
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: vision-council-of-america.
$90K
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Insurance Consumer Protection and Solvency Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 312113th CongressCarson National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 605112th CongressPatients' Freedom to Choose Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 312112th CongressPatients' Freedom to Choose Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 577111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1796111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 259111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 507110th CongressVision Care for Kids Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
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.
David RussellBryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLPCovered position: Leg Dir, Leg Counsel, Deputy Chief of Staff andChief of Staff, Sen Ted Stevens, Senate Cmte onScience/Commerce/Transportation1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 3 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
