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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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-pathology.
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
70 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
46 filings
$2M 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.
110th Congress
Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3453110th CongressCommunity Clinical Laboratory Fairness in Competition Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2099110th CongressPreserving Access to Laboratory Services Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2510110th CongressCytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 605110th CongressAllied Health Reinvestment Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 736110th CongressLaboratory Test Improvement Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1309113th CongressHealth Information Technology Reform Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4066112th CongressHealth Information Technology Reform Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6118112th CongressTaking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6352112th CongressResident Physician Shortage Reduction and Graduate Medical Education Accountability and Transparency Act2 filingsthrough 2012
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.
