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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
67 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
52 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 3295112th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2646114th CongressHelping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)44 filingsthrough 2026
Laura BozellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (McCrery), Prof Staff Ways & Means Cmte (Camp)44 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.30 filingsthrough 2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 83 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: childrens-national-medical-center.
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.
MMM
50 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
48 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
42 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF
37 filings
$1.8M on those filings
District of Columbia
DOC
11 filings
$530K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$320K 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.
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 5265110th CongressPaul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.Con.Res. 14119th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.1 filingthrough 2025
S.Con.Res. 7119th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 1553110th CongressCaroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 5613110th CongressProtecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
S. 2618110th CongressPaul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments Act of 20081 filingthrough 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.
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Exec. Dir. Congressional Black Caucus
William SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Deputy Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assist, House Member Office (Rogers); Staff Assistant, Senate Approps Cmte13 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Special Assistant, Environ. Protection Agency12 filingsthrough 2015
Amy SoudersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2019
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2012
Erik FatemiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte (Byrd, Inouye, Mikulski)9 filingsthrough 2020
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)9 filingsthrough 2017
John A. LeggieriCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2017
David MarinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Press Sec'y/Leg. Director, Rep. Tom Davis7 filingsthrough 2015
Jacqueline D BowensChildren'S National Medical Center7 filingsthrough 2009
WILLIAM EDWARD QUIRK ivChildren'S National Medical Center7 filingsthrough 2009
Clare KellyChildren'S National Medical Center7 filingsthrough 2009
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)6 filingsthrough 2018
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Asst./Asst. LD/LD, Rep. Joe Baca6 filingsthrough 2015
Geoff J GonellaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2017
David AdamsPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Prof. Staff, H. Int'l Relations/For. Affairs Cmte.5 filingsthrough 2015
John LaddCarmen Group IncorporatedCovered position: Chief Counsel, House Jud. Sub Committee5 filingsthrough 2011
David CarmenCarmen Group Incorporated5 filingsthrough 2011
William Alan SignerCarmen Group Incorporated5 filingsthrough 2011
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Communications Dir., House Approps Committee5 filingsthrough 2009
Jennifer BellChamber Hill StrategiesCovered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Finance Committee; Legislative Assistant, Rep. John Thune (R-SD)4 filingsthrough 2025
Shawn FriesenChamber Hill StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Mac Collins (GA-08); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Tom Ewing (IL-15); Clerk, House Judiciary Committee4 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 37 of 54 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
