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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: association-for-diagnostics-laboratory-medicine-formerly-aacc.
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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.
HCR
34 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
27 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$150K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$130K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
1 filing
Small Business
SMB
1 filing
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
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.
119th Congress
RESULTS Act
3 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1000118th CongressSaving Access to Laboratory Services Act3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2761119th CongressRESULTS Act2 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2377118th CongressSaving Access to Laboratory Services Act2 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4128117th CongressVALID Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
S. 2209117th CongressVALID Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
S. 350117th CongressNewborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4449117th CongressSaving Access to Laboratory Services Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20202 filingsthrough 2019
S. 141114th CongressProtecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
S. 149114th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2015
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.
Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (Formerly Aacc)
