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.
Health Issues
HCR
20 filings
$680K 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Marilyn K YagerAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant to the President, White House Office of Public Liaison22 filingsthrough 2020
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: welvie.
22 filingsthrough 2020
Y. Brian LeeAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Legislative Intern, Rep. Doug Lamborn.18 filingsthrough 2020
Elinor HillerAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor, Office of the Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); Director, Medicare Parts C and D Analysis Group, Office of Legislation, CMS.7 filingsthrough 2020
Emily A ShawAlston & Bird LLP7 filingsthrough 2020
Regina Maria SherickAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senate Finance Committee5 filingsthrough 2017
Danielle WhiteAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Intern, Senate HELP Committee; Intern, HHS Office of General Counsel (CMS Division); Intern, Staff Assistant and Executive Assistant, Rep. Nancy Johnson.4 filingsthrough 2017
Peter FiseAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee4 filingsthrough 2016
Carolyn E SmithAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Associate Deputy Chief of Staff & Legislative Counsel, Joint Committee on Tax1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 10 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
