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-society-for-microbiology.
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.
35 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
26 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
16 filings
$600K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
4 filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
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.
117th Congress
Bioeconomy Research and Development Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2076117th CongressPASTEUR Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1355118th CongressPASTEUR Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2225117th CongressNational Science Foundation for the Future Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4521117th CongressStrategic Competition Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2209117th CongressVALID Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2862116th CongressVACCINES Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1864119th CongressRisky Research Review Act6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 854119th CongressRisky Research Review Act6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1000118th CongressSaving Access to Laboratory Services Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3593117th CongressDepartment of Energy Science for the Future Act6 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Janet ShoemakerAmerican Society for Microbiology18 filingsthrough 2016
Nicholas CoxAmerican Society for Microbiology14 filingsthrough 2026
JAMES K KENNEDY jrCavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.10 filingsthrough 2021
Meghan O'BrienAmerican Society for Microbiology9 filingsthrough 2011
Suzanne LeousAmerican Society for Microbiology9 filingsthrough 2010
Jr KaneAmerican Society for Microbiology7 filingsthrough 2026
Camille BontaSummit Health Care ConsultingCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, US Senator John Glenn7 filingsthrough 2019
Jonathan DanielsCavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.5 filingsthrough 2024
Michael Anthony PetersonLewis-Burke Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Leg. Assistant, Leg. Assistant, Leg. Correspondent/Media Specialist, Staff Assistant, Intern, Congressman Peter J. Visclosky4 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth StulbergLewis-Burke Associates, LLCCovered position: Agricultural Science Fellow, Office of the Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Science Policy Advisor for Food and Life Sciences, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.2 filingsthrough 2026
