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-cataract-refractive-surgery.
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
3 filings
$519K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
3 filings
$519K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
2 filings
$341K on those filings
Veterans
VET
1 filing
$148K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
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.
118th Congress
Physician Fee Schedule Update and Improvements Act
5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3514119th CongressImproving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6160119th CongressStrengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act3 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1816119th CongressImproving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7153118th CongressDr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8702118th CongressImproving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1302118th CongressResident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3679118th CongressDr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4532118th CongressImproving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 652118th CongressSafe Step Act3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3173117th CongressImproving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3322117th CongressMedicare Patient Empowerment Act of 20213 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.
9 filingsthrough 2014
Brad GruehnAmerican Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery5 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 1 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
