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-of-anesthesiologists.
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.
114 filings
$18.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
7 filings
$210K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
4 filings
$115K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 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.
114th Congress
Veterans Health Care Staffing Improvement Act
16 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2279114th CongressVeterans Health Care Staffing Improvement Act16 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1044112th CongressMedicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 201115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2138114th CongressMedicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 201514 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 451112th CongressHealthcare Truth and Transparency Act of 201114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act13 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3502116th CongressProtecting People From Surprise Medical Bills Act11 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2056110th CongressMedicare Anesthesiology Teaching Funding Restoration Act of 200711 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1215115th CongressProtecting Access to Care Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1190114th CongressProtecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Matthew T PopovichAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists48 filingsthrough 2026
Ashley WaltonAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists33 filingsthrough 2022
Lisa PearlsteinAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists21 filingsthrough 2016
Michelle MathyAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists20 filingsthrough 2015
Cavan JonesAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists14 filingsthrough 2026
Jay VelasquezThe Velasquez Group, L.L.C.14 filingsthrough 2012
Ronald SzabatAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists13 filingsthrough 2012
Katherine RaabThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: House Cmte on Energy and Commerce, Prof. Staff; Congressman Mary Bono, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Elton Gallegly, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Leg. Corr.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Staff Asst11 filingsthrough 2019
Grant CouchAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists10 filingsthrough 2014
Jason ByrdAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists10 filingsthrough 2012
HARVEY E AMOE iiiAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists10 filingsthrough 2011
Joel KassidayHillstaffer, LLCCovered position: Rep. Gallegly (COS '98-'13); Sen. ay Bailey Hutchison (Press Sec'y '97- '98); Rep. Lazio (COS '94-'97)9 filingsthrough 2021
Thomas RosenfieldHillstaffer, LLC9 filingsthrough 2021
Susan WaldenHillstaffer, LLCCovered position: Senate Finance Committee (Health Policy Counsel '06- '11); Sen. Olympia Snowe (Health Policy Advisor '04- '06)9 filingsthrough 2021
Anne D DarconteHillstaffer, LLC9 filingsthrough 2021
Meg ThompsonFederal Science Partners LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House and Senate Appropriations Committee9 filingsthrough 2018
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Pol Dir (Senate Maj Ldr Frist); Staff Dir (Senate Pub. Health SC); Maj Health Pol Csl (House Ways/Means C, Health SC); Health Pol Coord & Csl (Senate Labor/HR C); Csl & Prof Staff (Senate Labor/HR C, Disab Pol SC); Case Wkr (Rep. Boschwitz)8 filingsthrough 2023
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Rep. Lofgren); Dir of Congressional Relations (FTC); Dep Dir for Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Staff Asst (Sen. Metzenbaum)8 filingsthrough 2023
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Exec Dir (House Repub Pol C); CoS (Rep. Shadegg); LA (Rep. Dannemeyer); LD (Rep. Bartlett)8 filingsthrough 2023
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Pol; General Csl & Pol Dir (House Repub Conf)8 filingsthrough 2023
Sage EastmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Strategy Dir, Dep Staff Dir (Maj), Sr Adv (House Ways/Means C); Comm Dir (Rep. Camp)8 filingsthrough 2023
Lauren AronsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dir (Office of Legis, CMS); Prof Staff Mem, (house Ways/Means C); Pol Dir (White House); Pol Dir (HHS Office of Health Reform-detailed to White House); Pol Adv (Rep. Emanuel); Health LA (Rep. McCarthy)8 filingsthrough 2023
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Mem Svcs & Coalitions Dir (House Approp C); Pol Adv/Dep CoS (House Maj Ldr DeLay); LD (Rep. Rogers); Sr LA (Rep. Regula); Sr LA (Rep. Franks); LA (Rep. Rogers); Special Proj Asst (House Trans/Infra C); Staff Asst (Rep. Shuster)8 filingsthrough 2023
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Sen. Coats); Csl/LD (Sen. Gregg); General Csl (Sen. Dole)8 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 39 of 66 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
