• Pharmaceutical distribution and supply chain security.

Duration: July 3, 2014 to present

General Issues: Health Issues

Spending: about $220,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2014: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), White House Office, Administration for Children & Families (ACF)

Affiliated organizations: AbbVie; Actavis; AmerisourceBergen; UPS; BMS Global; Upsher-Smith Laboratories; Novartis Pharmaceutical; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical; Generic Pharmaceutical Association; Medline Indistries, Inc.; PhRMA; Mylan Pharmaceuticals; Eli Lilly and Company; Takeda Pharmaceuticals North Ameri; Perrigo Company; Johnson & Johnson; Bayer Healthcare Pharma Inc.; DSC Logistics; AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals; Mallinckrodt; Cardinal Health; BIO; Int'l Warehouse Logistics Assoc.; Nat'l Assoc. of Chain Drug Stores; Pfizer; Healthcare Distrib. Mgmt Assoc.; Grifols; Health Industry Distribution Assoc; CVS Caremark; H.D. Smith; Merck and Co.; Nat'l Community Pharmacists Assoc.