Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Baptist Health Care
Texas
6 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2009 · latest filed Jul 17, 2009
Reported on its behalf
$240K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$240K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Education
EDU
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 5174 110th CongressNursing and Allied Health Education Preservation Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
- S. 3468 110th CongressNursing and Allied Health Education Preservation Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Paul Sweet Mercury Public Affairs, LLC9 filingsthrough 2009
- Max Sandlin Mercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress9 filingsthrough 2009
- Michael Mcsherry Mercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Dept. of Labor; HUD9 filingsthrough 2009
- Dallas Sweezy Mercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Dir., CMS; Dir., Dept. of Ag; Leg. Dir., Dept Labor5 filingsthrough 2009
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: baptist-health-care.