Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR · 101 clients
2,307 filings
$158.3M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 89 clients
2,035 filings
$142.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this firm's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Jody B. HiceR-Georgia-AL
Bills: H.R. 2617
393 filings
9 lobbyists
John A. YarmuthD-Kentucky-AL
Bills: H.R. 1319, H.R. 1577, H.R. 5376 +2 more
392 filings
9 lobbyists
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Jennifer B YoungCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff, Sen. Cmte. on Finance2,586 filings101 clients · through 2026
Raissa H DownsCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.2,504 filings94 clients · through 2026
Elizabeth T MurrayCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Leg. Asst., Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Sen. Bob Graham2,110 filings86 clients · through 2026
Charlotte Spears IvancicCovered position: Leg. Counsel, Sen. Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Maj. Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Cmte.; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
The Linde Group
Germany
2 filings
through 2018
Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC
Ireland
2 filings
through 2012
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd
The filings
The 20 most recent of 2,500 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: tarplin-downs-young-llc.
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.
Elevance Health, Inc (F.K.A. Anthem, Inc. & Wellpoint, 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 $171.1M in fees and $0 in expenses.
BUD · 69 clients
1,691 filings
$119.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 22 clients
497 filings
$36.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 14 clients
282 filings
$18.3M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA · 8 clients
237 filings
$16.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 9 clients
54 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
29 filings
$2M on those filings
Veterans
VET · 2 clients
20 filings
$950K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 3 clients
16 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
7 filings
$630K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 2 clients
4 filings
$280K 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.
Richard BurrR-North Carolina
Bills: S. 2209, S. 3799, S. 4348
198 filings
9 lobbyists
G. K. ButterfieldD-North Carolina-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 1990, H.R. 2461 +4 more
143 filings
9 lobbyists
Bobby L. RushD-Illinois-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
126 filings
9 lobbyists
James R. LangevinD-Rhode Island-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 2461, H.R. 4521 +2 more
105 filings
7 lobbyists
A. Donald McEachinD-Virginia-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
98 filings
7 lobbyists
Ed PerlmutterD-Colorado-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
98 filings
7 lobbyists
Eddie Bernice JohnsonD-Texas-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
98 filings
7 lobbyists
Kathleen M. RiceD-New York-AL
Bills: H.R. 1577, H.R. 4521, H.R. 5441 +1 more
98 filings
7 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this firm's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
2,089 filings95 clients · through 2026
Pamela SmithCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Counselor to the Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept of Justice; Spec Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept of Justice; Counsel and LA, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun1,814 filings83 clients · through 2026
Emily H MurryCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Helath, Ways and Means Cmte; Sr. Policy Adivsor, Maj. Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Maj. Whip McCarthy; Prof. Staff, Republicans Study Cmte.; Leg. Aide, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price1,701 filings90 clients · through 2026
Michelle P EastonCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham1,684 filings70 clients · through 2024
Kimberly Lynn BrandtCovered position: Sr. Counsel and Dir. External Affairs - HHS OIG; Prin. Dep. Administrator for Policy and Operations and Dir. of Medicare Program Integrity - CMS; Chief Oversight and General Counsel - Senate Cmte. on Finance982 filings76 clients · through 2024
Peter FiseCovered position: Health Counsel for Sen. Cmte on Finance, Health Counsel for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Staff Assistant for House Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform814 filings78 clients · through 2026
Margaret JosephCovered position: CoS for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Bobby Bright, CoS for Rep. Jim Matheson, Clerk for House Rules Cmte.810 filings74 clients · through 2026
Laura FriedelCovered position: Leg. Asst., Sen. Zell Miller, Leg. Dir., Sen. Richard Shelby, Clerk, Staff Dir., Sen. Appropriations Committee622 filings69 clients · through 2025
Linda E TarplinCovered position: Sp. Asst. to the Pres. for Leg. Affairs; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS558 filings31 clients · through 2015
Parick Braerton CarrollCovered position: Leg Asst. Rep. Ray LaHood, Leg Dir. Rep. Kevin Yoder, PSM Senate Appropriations Cmte.443 filings62 clients · through 2026
Isaac A FordjourCovered position: Means; Cmte. Staff, Sen. Cmte. on Finance378 filings29 clients · through 2014
Jeff ReczekCovered position: Dir. CDC Washington, Professional Staff Sen. Appropriations Cmte, Program Examiner OMB, Program Analyst Dept. of Transportation30 filings15 clients · through 2026
Elizabeth Easton (Name Error - Not A Real Person)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham1 filing1 client · through 2022
Raissa Murray (Name Error-Not A Real Person)1 filing1 client · through 2022
Covered positions · 16 of 17 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.
Switzerland
1 filing
through 2023
Valneva Austria Gmbh
Austria
1 filing
through 2023
Valneva Se
France
1 filing
through 2023
Novocure Gmbh
Switzerland
1 filing
through 2021
Novocure Limited
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2021
Novocure Luxembourg S.A.R.L
Luxembourg
1 filing
through 2021
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.
United States of America
1 filing
through 2020
Novo A/S (Owns 26.5% of Nn A/S)
Denmark
1 filing
through 2020
Novo Nordisk Fonden (Ultimate Parent Company)
Denmark
1 filing
through 2020
Registrant Is a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Novo Nordisk US Which Is Wholly-Owned by Novo Nordisk A/S.
Denmark
1 filing
through 2020
Ostuka Pharmaceutical Co. Inc.
Japan
1 filing
through 2019
Roche Group
Switzerland
1 filing
through 2018
Mallinckrodt PLC
Ireland
1 filing
through 2013
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.
