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: catholic-health-association-of-the-united-states.
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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.
49 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
41 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Religion
REL
31 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
19 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
19 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
17 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
15 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
13 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
13 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
8 filings
$1.5M 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.
116th Congress
Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 42116th CongressBackground Check Expansion Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1676115th CongressPalliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 644115th CongressConscience Protection Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1179113th CongressImproving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 569113th CongressImproving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1868116th CongressHealth Care Affordability Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Paulo PontemayorCatholic Health Association of the United States30 filingsthrough 2026
Lucas SwanepoelCatholic Health Association of the United States29 filingsthrough 2026
