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: wellcare-health-plans-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.
11 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$310K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
5 filings
$310K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$290K 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
SNP Reauthorization Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2646114th CongressHelping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 20168 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1827115th CongressKIDS Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2582114th CongressSeniors' Health Care Plan Protection Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2017
S. 3063115th CongressHealth Insurance Tax Relief Act of 20186 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2680114th CongressMental Health Reform Act of 20166 filingsthrough 2016
S. 172116th CongressHealth Insurance Tax Relief Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5963115th CongressTo delay the reimposition of the annual fee on health insurance providers until after 2020.5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1839116th CongressMedicaid Services Investment and Accountability Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 4004116th CongressSocial Determinants Accelerator Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2543116th CongressPrescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Chamber Hill Strategies
Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Finance Committee
Sohini GuptaWellcare Health Plans, Inc.Covered position: Health and Social Policy Counsel, Senator Evan Bayh8 filingsthrough 2020
Mary Kathleen ZirkelbachChamber Hill Strategies8 filingsthrough 2017
Edward PrettymanSims Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent and Constituent Services Representative, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE)7 filingsthrough 2018
Michaela SimsSims Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE); Legislative Director and Counsel, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE)7 filingsthrough 2018
Danny LyWellcare Health Plans, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2020
Elizabeth Cahn GoodmanWellcare Health Plans, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2015
Brian BallardBallard Partners5 filingsthrough 2017
