24 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Jan 17, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$670K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$670K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
20 filings
$670K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$280K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2506114th CongressSeniors' Health Care Plan Protection Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2582114th CongressSeniors' Health Care Plan Protection 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: wellcare.
7 filings
$280K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$220K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Insurance
INS
3 filings
$20K 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
Veteran Wellness Act
5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2582115th CongressConfirming State Land Grants for Education Act5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3717115th CongressSmall Business Owners' Tax Simplification Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3717114th CongressU.S.-Israel Global Neuroscience Partnership Act4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
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.
21 filingsthrough 2018
Carl ChidlowWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: N/A21 filingsthrough 2018
Donna MullinsWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: CoS/Approps Staff, Rep. Frelinghuysen and Rep. Dean Gallo; CoS Senator Chiesa17 filingsthrough 2018
Molly McdonnellWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: LC/LA/Senior Health Policy Advisor; Congressman Leonard Lance8 filingsthrough 2018
John WymaJohn Wyma and Associates4 filingsthrough 2008
Laura LayWinning Strategies Washington2 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
