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-college-of-surgeons.
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.
BUD
68 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
56 filings
$9.9M 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.
113th Congress
Pediatric Subspecialty and Mental Health Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R. 1781118th CongressEnsuring Access to General Surgery Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2416118th CongressTo amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a military and civilian partnership for trauma readiness grant program.9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 715118th CongressBipartisan Background Checks Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 731118th CongressWorkforce Mobility Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1140118th CongressEnsuring Access to General Surgery Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
S. 220118th CongressWorkforce Mobility Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
S. 494118th CongressBackground Check Expansion Act9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 705118th CongressSPARC Act9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1017115th CongressRemoving Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1822115th CongressGood Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Patrick V. BaileyAmerican College of Surgeons
43 filingsthrough 2024
Sara MorseAmerican College of Surgeons37 filingsthrough 2017
Vicki HartHart Health StrategiesCovered position: Senator Bob Dole35 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy YehlHart Health StrategiesCovered position: Senator Frank Lautenberg35 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew DuckworthHart Health Strategies35 filingsthrough 2026
Judith GorsuchHart Health StrategiesCovered position: Senator Jon Kyl35 filingsthrough 2026
Emma ZimmermanAmerican College of Surgeons22 filingsthrough 2026
Amelia SuermannAmerican College of Surgeons22 filingsthrough 2024
Katie OehmenAmerican College of Surgeons20 filingsthrough 2022
Mark LukaszewskiAmerican College of Surgeons15 filingsthrough 2019
John E HedstromAmerican College of Surgeons15 filingsthrough 2014
Shawn FriesenAmerican College of Surgeons15 filingsthrough 2011
Courtney LisowskiAmerican College of Surgeons14 filingsthrough 2026
Heather Herndon SmithAmerican College of Surgeons14 filingsthrough 2016
Justin Mark RosenAmerican College of Surgeons13 filingsthrough 2019
Matthew BrownAmerican College of Surgeons11 filingsthrough 2026
Barry BrownAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) & Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX); Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX)10 filingsthrough 2015
Courtney JohnsonAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Research Assistant, House Energy & Commerce Committee10 filingsthrough 2015
JAMES HAWKINS iiiAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Senate HELP Committee10 filingsthrough 2015
Hannah CharginAmerican College of Surgeons9 filingsthrough 2021
Hallie KochAmerican College of Surgeons8 filingsthrough 2026
Greg MeansAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Dennis Eckart8 filingsthrough 2014
Cate Mccanless BlankenburgAmerican College of Surgeons8 filingsthrough 2009
Kristen HedstromAmerican College of Surgeons7 filingsthrough 2011
Dana HalvorsonAmerican College of Surgeons6 filingsthrough 2012
Thomas AultHealth Policy Alternatives6 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 7 of 39 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
