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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
66 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
63 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 70 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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-dermatology.
TAX
63 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
19 filings
$760K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
6 filings
$240K 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.
115th Congress
Tanning Tax Repeal Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2698114th CongressTanning Tax Repeal Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3173117th CongressImproving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 20227 filingsthrough 2022
S. 464117th CongressSafe Step Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 748117th CongressMedicare Sequester Relief Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 879119th CongressMedicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 891119th CongressBipartisan Health Care Act6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 652118th CongressSafe Step Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1667117th CongressDr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act6 filingsthrough 2022
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:
44 filingsthrough 2021
Martin B. GoldCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Floor adviser and council, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.43 filingsthrough 2024
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.40 filingsthrough 2026
Luke HatzisCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: LD & LA, Cong. Peter Roskam; Republican Clerk, House Rules Committee; Legislative Aide, House Republican Conference; Floor Assistant, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.39 filingsthrough 2026
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules. Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions. House Committee on Homeland Security. Various staff positions, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert.27 filingsthrough 2021
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC23 filingsthrough 2015
Jeffrey CarrollCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Director House Energy and Commerce Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Director, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Frank Pallone.20 filingsthrough 2026
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Smith20 filingsthrough 2016
John MartinCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Principal Associate Commissioner, FDA; Legislative Director, Sen. Tom Cotton; Legislative Assistant; Sen. Tom Cotton; Legislative Assistant, Representative Tom Cotton.6 filingsthrough 2026
Nick BouknightCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Chief of Staff/ Communications Dir., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Bill Thomas; Deputy Press Sec., Ways and Means Cmte.; Press Asst., Ways and Means Cmte.6 filingsthrough 2024
James GouldCapitol Counsel LLC6 filingsthrough 2012
Charles Patrick MichaelsCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assistant, and Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Schweikert; Staff Assistant, Rep. Ted Budd; Intern, Senator James DeMint.4 filingsthrough 2026
Bradley MolletCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff & Research Assistant, Sen. Tim Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Matheson; Legislative Director, Rep. Betsy Markey.4 filingsthrough 2022
Bernard PatashnikMarc Associates, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2008
David JonesCapitol Counsel LLC1 filingthrough 2014
Zahra BuckCapitol Counsel LLC1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 18 of 28 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
