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
43 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
37 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4502117th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20226 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 546114th CongressACE Kids Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
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: childrens-health-system-of-texas.
30 filings
$2.6M 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
ACE Kids Act of 2015
5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 9026118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9027118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
S. 428115th CongressACE Kids Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2021
S. 4659117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1839116th CongressMedicaid Services Investment and Accountability Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act2 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2543116th CongressPrescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 20192 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.
Covered position:
29 filingsthrough 2022
Casey BrouhardArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Health Counsel, Rep. Burgess (2019-2020); Intern, House Energy & Commerce Committee (2019)20 filingsthrough 2026
Sonja NesbitArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Legislation, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (2013-2016); Deputy Staff Director, Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, U.S. House of Representatives (2002-2013)1 filingthrough 2024
