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: zimmer.
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.
MMM
14 filings
$410K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$306K on those filings
Defense
DEF
10 filings
$231K on those filings
Veterans
VET
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
5 filings
$140K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
5 filings
$140K 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.
110th Congress
Tax Reduction and Reform Act of 2007
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 436112th CongressHealth Care Cost Reduction Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
S. 17112th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2900110th CongressFood and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5651112th CongressFood and Drug Administration Reform Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
S. 3187112th CongressFood and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act1 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 1265111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 506111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Lne Group
9 filingsthrough 2013
Kyla Michelle KamisLne Group7 filingsthrough 2011
Jori MintzLne Group5 filingsthrough 2013
Paul VincentLne Group5 filingsthrough 2010
Bevin Rhea MurphyLne Group5 filingsthrough 2010
Cheryl ArnoldLne Group4 filingsthrough 2013
BOB R BROOKS jrAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery (R-LA)4 filingsthrough 2009
