ABBOTT LABORATORIES — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 38 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

741

Filed by

Reported in-house

$78,772,496

Reported by firms

$21,125,000

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ millions 2007 to 2026

Filings

40 filings for 2018, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Amendment 3rd Quarter 2018	ABBOTT LABORATORIES	$730,000 reported
1st Quarter - Amendment 1st Quarter 2018	ABBOTT LABORATORIES	$820,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2018	W STRATEGIES, LLC	$50,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2018	CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP	$90,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2018	BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	$30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2018	MAYER BROWN LLP	$5,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2018	FORBES-TATE	$50,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2018	POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	$50,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2018	ABBOTT LABORATORIES	$1,420,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2018	IMPACT HEALTH POLICY PARTNERS	$40,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
ABBOTT LABORATORIES In-house	77	$78,772,496
W STRATEGIES, LLC	65	$3,250,000
BOCKORNY GROUP, INC.	23	$1,550,000
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	26	$1,460,000
KOUNTOUPES DENHAM CARR & REID, LLC	23	$1,350,000
IMPACT HEALTH POLICY PARTNERS	28	$1,100,000
BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	34	$1,000,000
THEGROUP DC, LLC	17	$990,000
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	16	$980,000
WILLIAMS AND JENSEN, PLLC	23	$960,000
POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	19	$890,000
FORBES-TATE	17	$830,000
THORN RUN PARTNERS	20	$790,000
FOLEY HOAG LLP	23	$720,000
DUTKO WORLDWIDE, LLC	12	$700,000
CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP	10	$620,000
LINCOLN POLICY GROUP	10	$520,000
MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.	9	$500,000
MARSHALL & POPP, LLC	7	$420,000
S-3 GROUP	7	$420,000
TIBER CREEK GROUP	7	$350,000
FGS GLOBAL (US) LLC (FKA FGH HOLDINGS LLC)	8	$290,000
COVINGTON & BURLING LLP	12	$280,000
CAPITOL HEALTH GROUP, LLC	6	$240,000
BLANK ROME GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	5	$240,000
MAYER BROWN LLP	39	$205,000
ALSTON & BIRD LLP	6	$160,000
CHAMBER HILL STRATEGIES	8	$100,000
PHRONESISDC, LLC	2	$100,000
DENTONS US LLP	4	$40,000
MCDERMOTT WILL & SCHULTE LLP	24	$30,000
HOGAN LOVELLS CADWALADER US LLP (FKA HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP)	3	$30,000
DUDDINGTON GLOBAL STRATEGIES LLC	1	$10,000
REED SMITH LLP	29	—
FEDERAL HEALTH POLICY STRATEGIES	21	—
CROWELL GLOBAL ADVISORS	16	—
THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.	1	—
FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS CONSULTING	1	—

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Health Issues	HCR	475
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	301
Medicare/Medicaid	MMM	234
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	157
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)	FOO	131
Agriculture	AGR	114
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	70
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs	MED	54
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	50
Veterans	VET	30
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice	LAW	23
Pharmacy	PHA	23
Science/Technology	SCI	18
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities	FIN	16
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	15

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 2749	111th	34
H.R. 1548	111th	34
H.R. 3590	111th	30
H.R. 1908	110th	30
H.R. 6331	110th	29
H.R. 3200	111th	27
S. 510	111th	24
H.R. 1260	111th	24
S. 515	111th	23
H.R. 1	111th	22
H.R. 5501	110th	22
H.R. 5376	117th	20
H.R. 5629	110th	20
H.R. 3962	111th	19
H.R. 2300	119th	18
S. 2477	118th	18
H.R. 3497	112th	18
H.R. 4872	111th	16
S. 369	111th	16
H.Con.Res. 312	110th	16
H.R. 1770	118th	15
H.R. 6	114th	15
S. 2029	110th	15
H.R. 1947	113th	14
S. 525	111th	14

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.