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-speech-language-hearing-association.
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.
129 filings
$18.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
18 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
12 filings
$3M on those filings
Unemployment
UNM
12 filings
$3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
4 filings
$1M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
3 filings
$660K 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
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2015
10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 353114th CongressVeterans' Access to Hearing Health Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 551114th CongressIDEA Full Funding Act10 filingsthrough 2016
S. 315114th CongressHearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 366117th CongressProtecting Access to Post-COVID–19 Telehealth Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 368117th CongressTelehealth Modernization Act8 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.
Neil A SnyderAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association38 filingsthrough 2018
Catherine FinleyThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Special Aging Committee; Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Smith; Legislative Asst, Sen. Snowe36 filingsthrough 2026
Mark William RodgersValente & Associates33 filingsthrough 2017
Michael Dennis BellValente & Associates33 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey P. ReganAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant - U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd (CT)25 filingsthrough 2022
GEORGE LYONS jrAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association25 filingsthrough 2016
Samuel J. HewittAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association23 filingsthrough 2018
William KnudsenAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association21 filingsthrough 2026
Harmony Marie AllenValente & AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Cunningham21 filingsthrough 2015
