Lobbying client

VIROPHARMA INCORPORATED

Pharmaceuticals.

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 6 of its records are shown together here.

Filings
40
Filed by
6
Reported in-house
$1,430,000
Reported by firms
$777,500

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, $ thousands 2007 to 2014

Filings

12 filings for 2012, newest first.
Filing Filed by Amount
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2012
PODESTA GROUP, INC. $40,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2012
VIROPHARMA INCORPORATED $100,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Amendment
2nd Quarter 2012
VIROPHARMA INCORPORATED $120,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2012
PODESTA GROUP, INC. $40,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2012
VIROPHARMA INCORPORATED $100,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report
2nd Quarter 2012
PODESTA GROUP, INC. $40,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Termination
2nd Quarter 2012
AVENUE SOLUTIONS $30,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Reportreplaced
2nd Quarter 2012
VIROPHARMA INCORPORATED $140,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report
1st Quarter 2012
AVENUE SOLUTIONS $40,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report
1st Quarter 2012
PODESTA GROUP, INC. $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.

FirmReportsAmount
VIROPHARMA INCORPORATED In-house 11 $1,430,000
PODESTA GROUP, INC. 10 $370,000
FOXKISER 2 $240,000
AVENUE SOLUTIONS 2 $70,000
KYM H. KILBOURNE 2 $62,500
HORIZON GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS 4 $35,000

Issues lobbied

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

IssueCodeMentions
Health Issues HCR 32
Pharmacy PHA 6
Medicare/Medicaid MMM 2

Bills named in its filings

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

BillCongressTimes named
H.R. 5651 112th 4
S. 3187 112th 4
H.R. 3988 112th 3
H.R. 4209 112th 1

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.