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: emd-serono-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 $40M in expenses.
PHA · 1 client
48 filings
$28.8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
43 filings
$25.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
40 filings
$23.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
35 filings
$21.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
26 filings
$15.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET · 1 client
23 filings
$15.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
21 filings
$14M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
20 filings
$12.3M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM · 1 client
14 filings
$8.7M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
14 filings
$7.3M 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.
Lynn TaylorCovered position: N/A
23 filings1 client · through 2013
Terri StewartCovered position: None20 filings1 client · through 2026
Thomas BorckCovered position: Senate Budget Committee (Chairman Mike Enzi) - Policy Director (5/18 - 11/19) Professional Staff Member (7/15 - 5/18); Representative Todd Rokita - Deputy Chief of Staff & Legislative Director (4/13 - 7/15) Legislative Assistant (10/11 - 4/13)19 filings1 client · through 2026
Wendy SussmanCovered position: NONE18 filings1 client · through 2022
Alanna TemmeCovered position: N/A14 filings1 client · through 2018
Paul Jeffrey TreadgoldCovered position: None9 filings1 client · through 2023
Daniel M. HarderCovered position: Clerk-House Ways & Means (2014); Leg. Assist. Rep. Mike Bishop's Office (2015); Leg. Director-Rep. Mike Bishop's Office (2016-2018)6 filings1 client · through 2021
Mary Beth SpencerCovered position: Rep. Greg Walden, Executive Assistant/Scheduler (7/2013-7/2015)4 filings1 client · through 2026
THOMAS CORDREY ROBERGE jrCovered position: Legislative Counsel - U.S. Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald (2002-2004)4 filings1 client · through 2019
Kyle HayesCovered position: NONE1 filing1 client · through 2010
Covered positions · 14 of 14 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.
China
1 filing
through 2019
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.
