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-biomet-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.
TRD
55 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
44 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
11 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Veterans
VET
5 filings
$790K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
4 filings
$740K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
4 filings
$715K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
4 filings
$370K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
3 filings
$550K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
3 filings
$545K 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.
116th Congress
Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2019
4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5273114th CongressHelping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 488112th CongressSave Our Medical Devices Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 736112th CongressBABE RUTH Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5605110th CongressPhysician Payments Sunshine Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2029110th CongressPhysician Payments Sunshine Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1691118th CongressEnsuring Patient Access to Critical Breakthrough Products Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 7546116th CongressMinority Community Public Health Emergency Response Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1736115th CongressTo amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the process for inspections of device establishments and for granting export certifications.2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2430115th CongressFDA Reauthorization Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 6601115th CongressEquality in Medicare and Medicaid Treatment Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act2 filingsthrough 2011
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.
Andrew James FrankeZimmer Biomet, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep Erik Paulsen, MN 3
Health Policy Advisor, Rep Lynn Jenkins, KS 2
