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: americas-essential-hospitals.
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.
BUD
80 filings
$21.6M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
9 filings
$2M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
7 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
4 filings
$885K 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
Establishing Beneficiary Equity in the Hospital Readmission Program Act of 2015
16 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 444111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.11 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1767116th CongressExcellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 965116th CongressCREATES Act of 201910 filingsthrough 2020
S. 824116th CongressExcellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4392115th CongressTo provide that the provision of the Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs final regulation relating to changes in the payment amount for certain drugs and biologicals purchased under the 340B drug discount program shall have no force or effect, and for other purposes.10 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.
Margaret Peterson FrenchAmerica'S Essential HospitalsCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joni Ernst21 filingsthrough 2023
Jason PrayAmerica'S Essential Hospitals20 filingsthrough 2026
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLP20 filingsthrough 2017
Lisa HawkeHolland & Knight LLP20 filingsthrough 2017
Alexandra CampauCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Health Policy Advisor and Counsel, House Budget Committee; Health Policy Counsel, Senate Republican Policy Committee; Special Assistant to the President for Health Policy, The White House/Executive Office of the President; Beachhead team member-HHS19 filingsthrough 2026
Rodney WhitlockMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 2011-2015: Health Policy Director, Sen. Chuck Grassley; 2005-2010: Health Policy Advisor, Senate Finance Committee; 2003-2005: Legislative Director, Rep. Charlie Norwood; 1997-2002: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood19 filingsthrough 2023
Katie WaldoMcdermott+ LLC19 filingsthrough 2023
Karl KochHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 12/2-1/07; Chief of Staff to Congressman J. Davis17 filingsthrough 2017
Richard Van BurenCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Leg. Correspondent, Senator Whitehouse; Assoc. Leg. Assistant, Leg. Assistant, Leg. Counsel, CMS; Health Insurance Specialist, Medicaid; Senior Analyst, CHIP Payment and MACPAC; Health Counsel, Senior Health Counsel, Committee on Energy and Commerce11 filingsthrough 2026
Rodney WhitlockMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Acting Health Policy Director for Senator Chuck Grassley10 filingsthrough 2019
Margaret GilleyMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 2005-2010: Executive Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Jack Kingston8 filingsthrough 2022
Jim DavisHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives8 filingsthrough 2015
Patrick Galagher MartinCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Correspondent - Office of Senator Evan Bayh; Special Assistant - Center for Consumer Info and Insurance Oversight, Dept. of HHS7 filingsthrough 2023
Debra CurtisMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 1998-2013: Legislative Director, Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Stark; jointly Professional Staff on Committee on Ways and Means, Health Subcommittee7 filingsthrough 2023
Amy KelbickMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 2015-2017: Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Jan Schakowsky; 2013-2015: Senior Legislative Assistance, Rep. Bill Foster; 2009-2013: Legislative Assistant, Staff Assistant, Rep. Maurice Hinchey7 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 22 of 53 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
