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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
121 filings
$15.1M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 156 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 618118th CongressImproving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act18 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1956117th CongressIncreasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 202117 filingsthrough 2022
Kristin ButterfieldAmerican Academy of Physician Associates72 filingsthrough 2026
Heather MeadeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 00-02 Dpty Sched/Asst to CoS, Sen Patty Murray58 filingsthrough 2026
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 99-01 Press Secretary/Deputy Director Communications SFC; 01-04 Public Affairs Specialist, Treasury; 05 Communications Director Presidents Advisory on Fed Tax Reform45 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 121 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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-physician-associates.
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.
115th Congress
Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act
17 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2583118th CongressIncreasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 202316 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2713118th CongressI CAN Act16 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1384117th CongressMainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act of 202116 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2067117th CongressMATE Act of 202116 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1052116th CongressTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for direct payment to physician assistants under the Medicare program for certain services furnished by such physician assistants.16 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 808116th CongressPromoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act16 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 900116th CongressACO Assignment Improvement Act of 201916 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1202114th CongressMedicare Patient Access to Hospice Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1986117th CongressIncreasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 202113 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1160115th CongressACO Assignment Improvement Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1317119th CongressI CAN Act11 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1616119th CongressPromoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act11 filingsthrough 2026
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.
W TATE HEUER jrAmerican Academy of Physician AssociatesCovered position: Senior Advisor, Office of Asst. Secretary of Legislation, HHS; Senior Policy Advisor, US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs Subcommittee on Emergency Management & Intergovernmental Relations; Senior LA, US Senator Mark Pryor39 filingsthrough 2026
Tillie FowlerAmerican Academy of Physician Associates35 filingsthrough 2021
Sandra HardingAmerican Academy of Physician Associates33 filingsthrough 2016
Christopher John StewartAmerican Academy of Physician Associates18 filingsthrough 2021
Sarah Kuehl EggeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 11 Dep Staff Dir, Joint Select Cmte on Def Red17 filingsthrough 2016
Laura DillonErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)16 filingsthrough 2026
Meghan O'BrienAmerican Academy of Physician Associates13 filingsthrough 2024
Jennifer TetersAmerican Academy of Physician Associates13 filingsthrough 2013
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 04-06 Dep Asst for Leg Aff to VP Dick Cheney12 filingsthrough 2015
Erika MillerAmerican Academy of Physician Associates8 filingsthrough 2016
Phil BongiornoAmerican Academy of Physician Associates7 filingsthrough 2023
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 92-95 Leg Officer, National Institutes of Health ; ; 95-97 Leg Analyst, National Institutes of Health ; ; 1996 Health Policy Fellow to Sen Kassebaum ; ; 97-00 Staff Dir, to Senator Bill Frist ; ; 2000 Health Policy Staff, Bush Transition Team ; ; 01-02 Spec Asst to President (Health), White House7 filingsthrough 2014
Patricia Taylor HittleErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Staff, Rep. Michael Burgess, 2011-12; dep. press sec., Rep. John Carter, 2012-15; health adv., Rep. Mimi Walters, 2015; leg. dir., Rep. Markw. Mullin, 2016-20; chief staff, HHS Asst. Sec. for Fin. Res., 2020-21; staff, House Ed. & Workforce, 2021-246 filingsthrough 2025
Corey Austin McgeeAmerican Academy of Physician Associates5 filingsthrough 2026
Amy Jensen CunniffeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 99-01 Assistant to the Speaker for Policy; 03-05 Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs5 filingsthrough 2016
Kimberly BeerAmerican Academy of Physician Associates5 filingsthrough 2010
Hillary BrayErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2016
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)3 filingsthrough 2022
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)3 filingsthrough 2022
William HeynigerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)3 filingsthrough 2022
Lauren RubinErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Legislative Director - Rep. Suzan DelBene - 2015-183 filingsthrough 2022
Ray BeemanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 01-05 Legislation Counsel, JTC; 11-14 Tax Counsel/ Special Advisor-Tax Reform, W&M2 filingsthrough 2022
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 95-98 Staff Dir, W&M SCmte on Oversight2 filingsthrough 2014
Jessica LaysonAmerican Academy of Physician Associates2 filingsthrough 2014
Daniel EsquibelErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)2 filingsthrough 2013
Samantha SchwarzErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2024
Jessica CameronErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Leg. Asst., House Ways & Means Committee, 2011-2014; Counsel, Speaker of the House, 2017-20181 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 15 of 37 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
