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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
55 filings
$15M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
53 filings
$14.9M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 93 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1868117th CongressTo prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts, and for other purposes.18 filingsthrough 2022
S. 773117th CongressA bill to enable certain hospitals that were participating in or applied for the drug discount program under section 340B of the Public Health Service Act prior to the COVID-19 public health emergency to temporarily maintain eligibility for such program, and for other purposes.11 filingsthrough 2022
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 Norwood30 filingsthrough 2026
Mark HayesAscension Health Alliance D/B/A AscensionCovered position: 2004-2010:Health Policy Director & 2002-2004:Health Policy Advisor, Sen Finance Cmte; 2001-2002: Sr Health Policy Advsr, Sen. Snowe; 2001:Health Policy Advsr, Sen HELP Cmte; 94-95:Sr Advisor, Sen Sm Bus. Cmte; 94-99:LA 89-90:Staff Asst, Sen. Bond28 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph LustigAscension Health Alliance D/B/A AscensionCovered position: 2019-2020: Senior Policy Advisor, 2017-2019: Policy Advisor, 2015-2017: Legislative Assistant, 2014-2015: Legislative Correspondent, 2014: Staff Assistant, Rep. Cedric L. Richmond
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: ascension-health-alliance-d-b-a-ascension.
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.
28 filings
$13.4M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
13 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$5.9M on those filings
Religion
REL
6 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Veterans
VET
6 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Insurance
INS
6 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Accounting
ACC
1 filing
$667K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$310K 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
Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act
H.R. 959117th CongressBlack Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 168117th CongressTREAT Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 346117th CongressBlack Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 20218 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.
25 filings
through 2025
Peter LeiboldAscension Health Alliance D/B/A Ascension24 filingsthrough 2024
Eric ZimmermanMcdermott+ LLC23 filingsthrough 2024
Debra CurtisMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 1998-2013: Legislative Director, Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Stark; jointly Professional Staff on Committee on Ways and Means, Health Subcommittee22 filingsthrough 2026
