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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
131 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
65 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 29 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 944117th CongressTo amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a loan repayment program to encourage specialty medicine physicians to serve in rural communities experiencing a shortage of specialty medicine physicians, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1826118th CongressPSA Screening for HIM Act8 filingsthrough 2024
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-urological-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.
21 filings
$500K on those filings
Veterans
VET
14 filings
$310K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
2 filings
$80K 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.
118th Congress
SPARC Act
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4880117th CongressVeterans’ Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3534116th CongressUSPSTF Transparency and Accountability Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5924116th CongressTo amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a loan repayment program to encourage specialty medicine physicians to serve in rural communities experiencing a shortage of specialty medicine physicians, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6092116th CongressVeteran’s Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2903117th CongressCONNECT for Health Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2021
S. 4330117th CongressSPARC Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1300119th CongressPSA Screening for HIM Act2 filingsthrough 2025
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.
Timothy YehlHart Health StrategiesCovered position: Congressman Frank Pallone; Senator Frankk Lautenberg37 filingsthrough 2018
Kristine R RufenerAmerican Urological Association15 filingsthrough 2017
Jim TwaddellFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide and Deputy Communications Director, Senator Arlen Specter April 1998 - January 200214 filingsthrough 2022
Erika MillerCavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.13 filingsthrough 2024
RAYMOND LEE WEZIK jrAmerican Urological Association13 filingsthrough 2023
Jeremy Nassef HainesAmerican Urological Association12 filingsthrough 2024
