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.
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: novartis.
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 $111.6M in expenses.
MMM · 1 client
68 filings
$111.6M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
68 filings
$111.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
58 filings
$96.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
58 filings
$93.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
23 filings
$39.8M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
15 filings
$22.9M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
12 filings
$15.6M on those filings
Veterans
VET · 1 client
11 filings
$19.4M on those filings
Animals
ANI · 1 client
6 filings
$9.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
5 filings
$7.5M 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.
Courtney Lee-Ashley30 filings1 client · through 2026
Courtney Piron29 filings1 client · through 2026
Nora Connors23 filings1 client · through 2023
Shelly Mui-Lipnik22 filings1 client · through 2022
Brenda J Luckritz22 filings1 client · through 2015
David Drake20 filings1 client · through 2014
Katherine Solon20 filings1 client · through 2014
Seemin Pasha16 filings1 client · through 2023
James Elkin15 filings1 client · through 2012
Sarah Durr14 filings1 client · through 2026
Jason Benjamin Van Pelt12 filings1 client · through 2016
Candice Phipps11 filings1 client · through 2017
Wendy P Sussman11 filings1 client · through 2017
Thomas Andrew Suter9 filings1 client · through 2026
Mary L Coen8 filings1 client · through 2012
Thomas Giles8 filings1 client · through 2010
Marguerite Baxter7 filings1 client · through 2010
Peter Stehouwer5 filings1 client · through 2026
Gene Hughes5 filings1 client · through 2009
Jennifer Young Maloney4 filings1 client · through 2012
Bruce Anthony Ruscio4 filings1 client · through 2011
