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-lung-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.
75 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
72 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
69 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
67 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Veterans
VET
64 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
63 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Postal
POS
55 filings
$4M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
46 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
11 filings
$600K on those filings
Retirement
RET
1 filing
$50K 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.
115th Congress
Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2017
15 filingsthrough 2018
S. 294115th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201715 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 792113th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
S. 772113th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 564116th CongressTo designate the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, as Devils Tower, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 294116th CongressNative American Business Incubators Program Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1639112th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20119 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1114118th CongressLong COVID RECOVERY NOW Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1551118th CongressJobs and Opportunities for Medicaid Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1692118th CongressHealth Care Affordability Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2583118th CongressIncreasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 277118th CongressRegulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Health and Medicine Counsel
Covered position: Legislative Consultant
26 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah BuchananHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant19 filingsthrough 2015
