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.
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: dialysis-patient-citizens.
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.
MED
5 filings
$140K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$130K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$150K 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.
119th Congress
Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act
12 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6860118th CongressRestore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act12 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2649117th CongressBETTER Kidney Care Act12 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1173119th CongressRestore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act11 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4143115th CongressDialysis PATIENTS Demonstration Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2644115th CongressChronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5027118th CongressChronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3976115th CongressAccess to Marketplace Insurance Act9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1255117th CongressLiving Donor Protection Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 377117th CongressLiving Donor Protection Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2065115th CongressDialysis PATIENTS Demonstration Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1130114th CongressChronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 4469118th CongressChronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Mitchell VakericsPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2007-2008 Staff Assistant, Rep Timothy F. Murphy (R-PA-18)
2008-2009 Leg Correspondent/Press Assistant, Rep Timothy F. Murphy (R-PA-18)
2011-2015 Leg Counsel, Rep Renee Ellmers (R-NC- 2)
2015 Leg Director, Rep Renee Ellmers (R26 filingsthrough 2024
IRVING E. DANIELS jrPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1992-1993: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Legislative Fellow, Rep. Charlie Rangel; 1993-1996: Legislative Counsel, Rep. Floyd Flake (D-NY), House Banking Committee9 filingsthrough 2024
Elizabeth Hart ThompsonPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 02-04 Leg Asst, Rep Hill (D-IN-09)
05-06 Leg Director, Rep Bean (D-IL-08)
06-09 Dep Chief of Staff, Rep Bean (D-IL, 08)
09-11 Chief of Staff, Rep Bean (D-IL-08)
11-15 Chief of Staff, Rep Carney (D-DE- At Large)9 filingsthrough 2020
Rich MeadePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1997-2003: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Nussle; 2001-05: Chief of Staff, Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives7 filingsthrough 2024
Zack MarshallPrime Policy GroupCovered position: May 2008-2010: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2010-2012: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2012-March 2014: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; March 2014 - January 2019: Legislative Director, Rep. John Yarmuth7 filingsthrough 2020
Mj KennyKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, Floor Assistant - Office of the Senate Democratic Whip Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent - Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)7 filingsthrough 2020
Kathleen M McauliffeHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)7 filingsthrough 2018
Aaron S. CutlerHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)7 filingsthrough 2018
C. Michael GillilandHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)7 filingsthrough 2018
Emily Austen KatzPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2013-15: Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Barbara Boxer; 2010-13: Health Policy Director, Rep. Diana DeGette; 2009-10: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ron Wyden; 2005-07: Legislative Aide, Sen. Ron Wyden; 2004: Biomedical Ethics Intern (Paid), NIH5 filingsthrough 2024
Carrie E LambDialysis Patient Citizens5 filingsthrough 2013
Andrew J TerpPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2012-2016: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Todd Young (IN-09); 2017-2019 Legislative Assistant, Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)3 filingsthrough 2024
Villem BerglundPrime Policy Group3 filingsthrough 2024
Dan BrownPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2019: Legislative Correspondent Rep. William Timmons (SC-04)3 filingsthrough 2022
Ann A. AdlerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: Sen Robert Byrd: CoS (2000-04); House Natural Resources Cmte: Sr Policy Advisor (2004-07), Dep CoS (2007-11); House Transportation Cmte: Dep CoS (2011-15); Interior Dept: Chief, Congressional/Legislative Affairs (2015-17); Rep Sean Casten: CoS (2019)3 filingsthrough 2021
William LennoxDialysis Patient Citizens3 filingsthrough 2010
Martin PaonePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1995-2001: Secretary for the Minority, Senate; 2001-2002: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2002-2007: Secretary, Minority, Senate; 2007-2008: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2015-2017: Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, White House2 filingsthrough 2022
Aquila PowellPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1996-1999: Legislative Aide, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI); 1994-1995: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Bryant (D-TX); 1999-2001: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation2 filingsthrough 2021
Kevin KlinkenbergPrime Policy Group2 filingsthrough 2020
