134 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Mar 24, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$4.1M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$890K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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: american-academy-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.
TAX
40 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
34 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
23 filings
$690K on those filings
Veterans
VET
21 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$492K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
6 filings
$10K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$55K 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
Medicare Audiology Services Enhancement Act of 2015
11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 315114th CongressHearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4056116th CongressMedicare Audiologist Access and Services Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1344114th CongressEarly Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3024111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1198110th CongressEarly Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 20089 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1665110th CongressMedicare Hearing Health Care Enhancement Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1069110th CongressEarly Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2352110th CongressMedicare Hearing Health Care Enhancement Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1587117th CongressMedicare Audiologist Access and Services Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 48115th CongressHearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
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:
14 filingsthrough 2012
Patrick CooneyThe Federal Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant14 filingsthrough 2012
Jennifer BellChamber Hill StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. John Thune (R-SD)13 filingsthrough 2015
Michaela SimsChamber Hill StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director and Counsel, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE)13 filingsthrough 2015
Adam Jeffrey FinkelAmerican Academy of Audiology9 filingsthrough 2019
Joanne ZurcherAmerican Academy of AudiologyCovered position: Vice President of Government Relations and Policy8 filingsthrough 2026
