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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
67 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
67 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3162111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Patrick CooneyThe Federal Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dick Swett70 filingsthrough 2026
John WilliamsThe Federal Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant44 filingsthrough 2019
Paul T KellyThe Federal Group, Inc.22 filingsthrough 2018
Don LavantyThe Federal Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant20 filingsthrough 2014
The filings
The 20 most recent of 67 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-society-for-clinical-laboratory-science.
MED
13 filings
$260K on those filings
Education
EDU
5 filings
$100K 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.
1 filing
through 2009
H.R. 6331111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Covered positions · 3 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
