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-ophthalmology.
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.
97 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
64 filings
$15.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
37 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
9 filings
$830K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$460K 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.
118th Congress
Safe Step Act
14 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3173117th CongressImproving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 202214 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2020116th CongressSEE MORE Act14 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3107116th CongressImproving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 201913 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 879119th CongressMedicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 202512 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 202111 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.
through 2024
Cathy Grealy CohenAmerican Academy of Ophthalmology57 filingsthrough 2023
Luke HatzisCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Floor Assistant, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert52 filingsthrough 2026
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Mike Ross45 filingsthrough 2021
Scott HaberAmerican Academy of Ophthalmology44 filingsthrough 2026
Martin B. GoldCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Floor Advisor & Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist41 filingsthrough 2024
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard Neal.40 filingsthrough 2026
Bradley MolletCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff & Research Assistant, Sen. Tim Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Matheson; Legislative Director, Rep. Betsy Markey.39 filingsthrough 2026
Aaron CohenCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff & Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Ensign; Legislative Aide, Sen. Richard Bryan; Legislative Corresp., Sen. Richard Bryan.34 filingsthrough 2022
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation30 filingsthrough 2018
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC27 filingsthrough 2015
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; and Staff Rep. Judy Biggert26 filingsthrough 2021
David JonesCapitol Counsel LLC25 filingsthrough 2016
Joseph EannelloCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Yoder; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jerry Weller.24 filingsthrough 2026
Richard Lyles SullivanCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to House Majority Leader21 filingsthrough 2015
Rodney WhitlockMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 2011-2015: Health Policy Director, Sen. Chuck Grassley; 2005-2010: Health Policy Advisor, Senate Finance Committee; 2003-2005: Legislative Director, Rep. Charlie Norwood; 1997-2002: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood20 filingsthrough 2026
Debra CurtisMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 1998-2013: Legislative Director, Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Stark; jointly Professional Staff on Committee on Ways and Means, Health Subcommittee20 filingsthrough 2026
Genevieve M BeltroneCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Jon Tester; Legislative Aide, Sen. Jon Tester; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Jon Tester; Assistant to the Chief of Staff and Legislative Director, Sen. Jon Tester; Staff Assistant, Sen. Jon Tester.16 filingsthrough 2026
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.15 filingsthrough 2026
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Rep. Nick Smith15 filingsthrough 2016
Eric ZimmermanMcdermott+ LLC13 filingsthrough 2026
Mark LukaszewskiAmerican Academy of Ophthalmology13 filingsthrough 2026
Shannon CurtisAmerican Academy of Ophthalmology13 filingsthrough 2015
Emily Elizabeth Wilkinson-HollandCapitol Hill Consulting GroupCovered position: Staff -Rep. Price (2010-11), LA: Rep. Grimm (2011-12), Rep. Black (2012-13), Sen.Vitter (2013-2015), Sen. Heller (2015-17), Policy Adv. to the Sec.- Dept of HHS (3/2017-8/2017), Sr Advisor to Administrator - Ctrs for Medicare & Medicaid (8/17- 5/19)11 filingsthrough 2021
