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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Cliff BentzR-Oregon-AL
Bills: H.R. 1492, H.R. 2584, H.R. 2630 +3 more
102 filings
2 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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: cleveland-clinic-foundation.
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.
BUD
78 filings
$8.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
19 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
17 filings
$3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
12 filings
$530K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
12 filings
$530K on those filings
Veterans
VET
10 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
8 filings
$606K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
5 filings
$620K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
4 filings
$340K 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.
113th Congress
Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2013
10 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1228113th CongressMedicare Better Health Rewards Program Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2243112th CongressMedicare Better Health Rewards Program Act of 20128 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Kristen Dw MorrisCleveland Clinic FoundationCovered position: Attorney General Dewine, Secretary of State Husted, Rep. LaTourette, Rep. Patton, Rep. Williams, Rep. Greenspan, Rep. Slaby, Rep. Howse, Rep. Boyd, Rep. Kent25 filingsthrough 2018
Greg D'AngeloThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: White House Office of Management and Budget, Associate Director of Health Programs; Senate Committee on the Budget (Sen. Gregg, Sen. Sessions, and Sen. Enzi), Professional Staff Member.22 filingsthrough 2026
Rachel Jones HenslerThe Nickles Group, LLC19 filingsthrough 2026
Donald KentThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant14 filingsthrough 2026
Chuck BrainPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Asst. to the President, Dp.Chief Staff W&M Cmte14 filingsthrough 2023
Daniel FarmerCleveland Clinic FoundationCovered position: Sen. Portman, Rep. Renacci, Majority and Minority Staff of House and Ways and Means Committee, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,13 filingsthrough 2019
Katharine Duarte KratovilLaw Offices of Frederick H. Graefe, PLLC11 filingsthrough 2012
Frederick H GraefeLaw Offices of Frederick H. Graefe, PLLC11 filingsthrough 2012
Elizabeth SumpCleveland Clinic FoundationCovered position: Senate HELP committee10 filingsthrough 2017
Katherine RaabThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: House Cmte on Energy and Commerce, Prof. Staff; Congressman Mary Bono, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Elton Gallegly, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Leg. Corr.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Staff Asst9 filingsthrough 2019
Thomas Wayne NaglePublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Tom Udall; Chief of Staff, U.S. Representative Tom Udall; Associate Staff, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations7 filingsthrough 2022
