Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
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.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Rich MeadePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1994-96: Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Nussle; 1997-2003: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Nussle; 2001-05: Chief of Staff, Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives45 filingsthrough 2023
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: academy-of-doctors-of-audiology.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
LAW
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Veterans
VET
5 filings
$196K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$100K 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 spend 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.
114th Congress
Veterans' Access to Hearing Health Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2276116th CongressFair and Equal Treatment of Women in the Coast Guard Act6 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2575116th CongressDisaster Assistance Simplification Act6 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2575115th CongressAudiology Patient Choice Act of 20186 filingsthrough 2018
S. 4054118th CongressHealth Care Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Covered position:
31 filingsthrough 2018
Mark DislerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1988-1996 Chief Counsel, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate23 filingsthrough 2023
Aquila PowellPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1996-1999: Legislative Aide, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI); 1994-1995: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Bryant (D-TX); 1999-2001: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation12 filingsthrough 2023
Zack MarshallPrime Policy GroupCovered position: May 2008-2010: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2010-2012: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2012-March 2014: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; March 2014 - January 2019: Legislative Director, Rep. John Yarmuth12 filingsthrough 2021
Emily Austen KatzPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2013-15: Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Barbara Boxer; 2010-13: Health Policy Director, Rep. Diana DeGette; 2009-10: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ron Wyden; 2005-07: Legislative Aide, Sen. Ron Wyden; 2004: Biomedical Ethics Intern (Paid), NIH11 filingsthrough 2023
Martin PaonePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1995-2001: Secretary for the Minority, Senate; 2001-2002: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2002-2007: Secretary, Minority, Senate; 2007-2008: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2015-2017: Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, White House10 filingsthrough 2021
Elizabeth ConnollyWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: Assistant Director of the Office of Public Health, Office of National Drug Control Policy9 filingsthrough 2026
Ross K. AiringtonWashington Strategic ConsultingCovered position: President7 filingsthrough 2024
