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-counseling-association.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
93 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
92 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
92 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
54 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
52 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
49 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
24 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$60K 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.
116th Congress
Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2019
15 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3662113th CongressMental Health Access Improvement Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3068118th CongressEqual Health Care for All Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3228118th CongressMental Health in Schools Excellence Program Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 657118th CongressNavigating to Success Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 733118th CongressVet CENTERS for Mental Health Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 744118th CongressSupporting the Mental Health of Educators and Staff Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1574118th CongressMental Health Excellence in Schools Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3073118th CongressTransit Emergency Relief Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 462118th CongressMental Health Professionals Workforce Shortage Loan Repayment Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 432117th CongressMental Health Access Improvement Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 828117th CongressMental Health Access Improvement Act of 20217 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.
27 filings
through 2026
Chris AndresenDutko Worldwide, LLC27 filingsthrough 2019
William SimmonsDutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: Cmte; Staff Dir., House Resources Subcmte on Forests &Forest Health27 filingsthrough 2019
Casey BrouhardArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Health Counsel, Rep. Burgess (2019-2020); Intern, House Energy & Commerce Committee (2019)24 filingsthrough 2026
Scott BarstowAmerican Counseling AssociationCovered position: Leg. Asst. - U.S. Rep. Mike Kopetski20 filingsthrough 2013
Kristine BlackwoodArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Deputy Dir. for Cong. Oversight, HHS (2010-15); Chief Counsel, Senate Aging (09-10); Investigative Counsel, House E&C (07-08); Attorney-Advisor, DOJ Leg Affairs (05-07); Healthcare Fraud Coordinator, DOJ (03-05); AUSA, Central District CA (94-03)17 filingsthrough 2023
Sonja NesbitArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Sonja NesbitDeputy Assistant Secretary of Legislation, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (2013-2016); Deputy Staff Director, Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, U.S. House of Representatives (2002-2013)14 filingsthrough 2026
