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-thoracic-society.
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.
56 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
49 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
41 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Veterans
VET
38 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
4 filings
$265K 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.
115th Congress
Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2017
15 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 792113th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 564116th CongressTo designate the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, as Devils Tower, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 294116th CongressNative American Business Incubators Program Act9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 9116th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2998115th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20187 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3268115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20187 filingsthrough 2018
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.
45 filingsthrough 2026
PHILIP GOGLAS iiHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant21 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah BuchananHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant19 filingsthrough 2015
Valerie Ann AdelsonAmerican Thoracic Society18 filingsthrough 2025
Kira FlahertyHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant17 filingsthrough 2026
Haley PayneHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant9 filingsthrough 2018
Darren WebbHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant9 filingsthrough 2010
Andrea OrszagHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant2 filingsthrough 2019
Andrew HerrinAmerican Thoracic Society1 filingthrough 2026
Fran DumelleAmerican Thoracic Society1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 10 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
