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-gastroenterological-association.
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.
MED
71 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$156K 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.
H.R. 869117th CongressRISE Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1220114th CongressRemoving Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2546116th CongressSafe Step Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1017115th CongressRemoving Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2077115th CongressRestoring the Patient's Voice Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 479115th CongressRemoving Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 624114th CongressRemoving Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Michael RobertsAmerican Gastroenterological Association41 filingsthrough 2019
Matthew DuckworthHart Health Strategies35 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah AnkneyAmerican Gastroenterological Association17 filingsthrough 2026
Megan TweedAmerican Gastroenterological AssociationCovered position: Director of Government Affairs12 filingsthrough 2021
Jessica FrascoHart Health Strategies8 filingsthrough 2026
Kimberly ParkerHart Health StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Laura Richardson7 filingsthrough 2010
Richard PriceHart Health Strategies5 filingsthrough 2009
Jeff RicchettiRicchetti Incorporated5 filingsthrough 2008
Maria PlakoudasHart Health StrategiesCovered position: Senator Specter2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 6 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
