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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Robert FilipponeCovered position: Deputy COS, Sen. Bob Graham45 filings1 client · through 2023
Bradley Allen RossinCovered position: Field Representative, Rep. Brian Bilbray; Senior Health Representative, Rep. Brian Bilbray41 filings1 client · through 2026
Elizabeth SchwartzCovered position: Legislative Assistant to Sen. Ron H. Johnson 07/2011-06/2014; Senate HELP Committee 06/2014-04/2018
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: merck-co-inc.
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 $129.6M in expenses.
TAX · 1 client
63 filings
$121.7M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
30 filings
$48.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
30 filings
$47.4M on those filings
Animals
ANI · 1 client
28 filings
$51.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
23 filings
$38.5M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
13 filings
$25.8M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
9 filings
$19.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
6 filings
$11.7M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 1 client
4 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
3 filings
$4.4M 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.
37 filings1 client · through 2026
Eli JosephCovered position: Leg. Asst., WH Office of Leg. Affs.31 filings1 client · through 2015
Jason Benjamin Van Pelt24 filings1 client · through 2014
Angela M StewartCovered position: Leg. Counsel, Leg. Asst., Sen. John Warner24 filings1 client · through 2014
Adam HuftalenCovered position: Staff Associate, House Foreign Relations Committee/Rep. Tom Lantos, March 2007 - May 200822 filings1 client · through 2025
Jenelle KrishnamoorthyCovered position: 2004-2006 - Environment,science, technology and health officer, bureau of South Asia, U.S. State Dept. 2006-2009 - Health Legislative Assistant, Senator Tom Harkin 2010-2015 - Health Policy Director, Senate HELP Committee19 filings1 client · through 2018
Courtney Lee-AshleyCovered position: Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Senator Ben Nelson (2005-2006)17 filings1 client · through 2019
Anne Esposito15 filings1 client · through 2012
Victoria Blatter12 filings1 client · through 2010
Corey MalmgrenCovered position: Law Clerk, Income Security and Family Support Subcmte, Ways and Means11 filings1 client · through 2021
Jennifer Hawks Bland7 filings1 client · through 2013
Laurie Michel7 filings1 client · through 2010
G Lawrence Atkins6 filings1 client · through 2010
Amelia BreinigCovered position: Dir. of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Press Secretary, Senate finance Committee; Press Aide, Press Secretary, Rep. Terry; Staff Asst., Sen. Fischer5 filings1 client · through 2024
Ian Spatz4 filings1 client · through 2008
Peter Rubin3 filings1 client · through 2008
Tom Bombelles3 filings1 client · through 2008
Thomas Radder2 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 15 of 34 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.
