Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
45 filings
$27.8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
44 filings
$27.5M on those filings
Health Issues
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Ashlie Van Meter30 filings1 client · through 2016
Robert W. Lively24 filings1 client · through 2020
G Thomas Long22 filings1 client · through 2013
Brent J Fisk18 filings1 client · through 2017
Ted Piper13 filings1 client · through 2014
Daniel M HarderCovered position: Legislative Director - Congressman Mike Bishop; Legislative Assistant - Congressman Mike Bishop; Staff Assistant/Clerk - House Committee on Ways and Means.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Allergan PLC
Ireland
2 filings
through 2018
Allergan, PLC
Ireland
2 filings
through 2016
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: allergan-usa-inc.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $27.8M in expenses.
HCR · 1 client
42 filings
$25.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
38 filings
$23.2M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 1 client
28 filings
$15.8M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA · 1 client
27 filings
$20.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
23 filings
$18.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
17 filings
$12.3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
17 filings
$11.7M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
4 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS · 1 client
2 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Accounting
ACC · 1 client
1 filing
$390K 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 money 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.
10 filings1 client · through 2020
James M. Fenton10 filings1 client · through 2015
Colman Brendan Ragan4 filings1 client · through 2016
Lively Robert2 filings1 client · through 2020
Covered positions · 1 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
