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-health-care-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.
TAX
98 filings
$28.2M on those filings
Veterans
VET
75 filings
$46.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
59 filings
$25.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
50 filings
$19.8M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
49 filings
$39.3M on those filings
Housing
HOU
47 filings
$39M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
40 filings
$18.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
29 filings
$18.6M on those filings
Torts
TOR
11 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Insurance
INS
11 filings
$4.8M 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.
114th Congress
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
23 filingsthrough 2016
S. 569113th CongressImproving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 201322 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 202121 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3298115th CongressWounded Officers Recovery Act of 201720 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4302114th CongressEND OF AN ERA Act18 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1932114th CongressAll Kids Matter Act18 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 713113th CongressMedicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 201318 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3604113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.18 filingsthrough 2014
S. 367113th CongressMedicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 201318 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.17 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1421115th CongressImproving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 201717 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 807115th CongressMedicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 201717 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.
60 filings
through 2026
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ross; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Secretary, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln.59 filingsthrough 2024
Robert WoodBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff to HHS Secretary; Intern to Rep. Scott Klug57 filingsthrough 2026
Michael BassettAmerican Health Care AssociationCovered position: US Dept.Labor, Nov.2003-Feb. 200557 filingsthrough 2026
HALEY REEVES BARBOUR srBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing56 filingsthrough 2026
CLIFTON J PORTER iiAmerican Health Care AssociationCovered position: HRC ManorCare, Executive, Oct.1997-Dec.200455 filingsthrough 2026
Dana Halvorson RitchieAmerican Health Care AssociationCovered position: Leg.Corres.,Sen.Conrad, May 2006-Oct.200755 filingsthrough 2026
Loren MonroeBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing54 filingsthrough 2025
Kim ZimmermanAmerican Health Care Association42 filingsthrough 2021
Luke HatzisCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: LD & LA, Cong. Peter Roskam; Republican Clerk, House Rules Committee; Legislative Aide, House Republican Conference; Floor Assistant, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.38 filingsthrough 2025
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.37 filingsthrough 2025
Kathleen LesterLester Health Law PLLC36 filingsthrough 2026
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Committee Member, Jt. Comte on Taxation36 filingsthrough 2018
Robb WaltonBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Senior Health Policy Advisor and Counsel Sen Cassidy; Advisor Rep. Cassidy; Research Asst., Staff Asst., Intern on Senate HELP, Ranking Member, Sen. Enzi; Intern to Rep. Nunes33 filingsthrough 2026
Aaron CohenCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Sen. Richard Bryan28 filingsthrough 2018
Brian BallardBallard Partners27 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz.27 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel FarmerBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Intern, Staff Asst, Leg. Corr./Leg. Asst. for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz; Leg. Asst., Sr. Leg. Asst., Leg. Dir. for Zack Space27 filingsthrough 2026
Scott EckartEmergent Strategies25 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Ryan ClaunchEmergent Strategies25 filingsthrough 2026
Denise Henry MorriseyCapitol Counsel LLC25 filingsthrough 2016
Darrel ThompsonThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Senior Advisor to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid; Senior Policy Advisor and Director of Member Services to House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt24 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 91 of 139 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
