MERCK & CO., INC. — 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 39 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

920

Filed by

Reported in-house

$146,432,510

Reported by firms

$30,181,500

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

48 filings for 2017, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Amendment 3rd Quarter 2017	MERCK & CO, INC.	$1,750,000 reported
4th Quarter - Amendment 4th Quarter 2017	CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC	$30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Reportreplaced 4th Quarter 2017	CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC	$30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Termination 4th Quarter 2017	COVINGTON & BURLING LLP	$60,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2017	BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	$50,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2017	AVENUE SOLUTIONS	$50,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2017	TARPLIN, DOWNS & YOUNG, LLC	$60,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2017	MERCK & CO, INC.	$790,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2017	THE NICKLES GROUP, LLC	$45,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2017	TIBER CREEK GROUP	$50,000 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
MERCK & CO, INC. In-house	77	$146,432,510
WILLIAMS AND JENSEN, PLLC	77	$4,120,000
TARPLIN, DOWNS & YOUNG, LLC	47	$2,590,000
TIBER CREEK GROUP	48	$2,400,000
AVENUE SOLUTIONS	47	$2,330,000
CAPITOL HILL STRATEGIES, LLC	41	$1,910,000
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC	51	$1,840,000
W STRATEGIES, LLC	35	$1,750,000
CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC	49	$1,570,000
MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.	26	$1,350,000
THE NICKLES GROUP, LLC	23	$1,190,000
BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	28	$940,000
CAUTHEN FORBES & WILLIAMS	24	$890,000
TODD STRATEGY GROUP	27	$820,000
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	20	$750,000
FORBES-TATE	15	$720,000
EAST END GROUP, LLC	16	$675,000
CANFIELD & ASSOCIATES, INC.	33	$620,000
CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC.	31	$620,000
FOLEY HOAG LLP	13	$615,000
RYAN MACKINNON VASAPOLI AND BERZOK, LLP	11	$580,000
COVINGTON & BURLING LLP	16	$350,000
SL STRATEGIES, LLC	9	$324,000
HARBINGER STRATEGIES, LLC	4	$200,000
PUBLIC STRATEGIES WASHINGTON, INC.	8	$160,000
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	5	$110,000
THE ADVOCACY GROUP	5	$100,000
ADVANCED POLICY CONSULTING, LLC	4	$100,000
FERGUSON STRATEGIES, LLC	4	$100,000
NVG, LLC	4	$70,000
THOMPSON CONSULTING GROUP	3	$70,000
NOSSAMAN LLP	3	$70,000
THE MCMANUS GROUP	9	$67,500
THE CACTUS GROUP, LLC	4	$60,000
POLSINELLI PC	3	$60,000
ALSTON & BIRD LLP	2	$40,000
MARK RAABE	22	$10,000
THE WASHINGTON TAX & PUBLIC POLICY GROUP	1	$10,000
ROPES & GRAY, LLP	1	—

Issues lobbied

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

Issue	Code	Mentions
Health Issues	HCR	657
Medicare/Medicaid	MMM	568
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	313
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	225
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	225
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	140
Pharmacy	PHA	70
Animals	ANI	60
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	29
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs	MED	22
Manufacturing	MAN	11
Homeland Security	HOM	7
Government Issues	GOV	6
Agriculture	AGR	6
Defense	DEF	5

Bills named in its filings

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

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 5376	117th	64
S. 2543	116th	55
H.R. 3	116th	48
H.R. 1319	117th	44
H.R. 5376	118th	35
H.R. 3590	111th	34
H.R. 3200	111th	33
H.R. 512	114th	32
H.R. 3	117th	31
H.R. 4100	116th	29
S. 1712	116th	29
H.R. 6	114th	29
H.R. 1	119th	27
H.R. 2900	110th	27
H.R. 1628	115th	25
H.R. 830	118th	22
S. 1416	116th	22
H.R. 748	116th	22
S. 1355	118th	21
H.R. 5378	118th	20
H.R. 107	116th	20
S. 301	111th	20
S. 1895	116th	18
H.R. 878	115th	18
H.R. 1892	115th	18

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.