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.
Veterans
VET
107 filings
$13.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 1,962 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1005115th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of adult day health care services for veterans.11 filingsthrough 2018
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: disabled-american-veterans.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
115th Congress
Expanding Care for Veterans Act
11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 103115th CongressChiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1367115th CongressTo improve the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to hire and retain physicians and other employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1371115th CongressVet Connect Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1472115th CongressMilitary and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
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.
38 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph A ViolanteDisabled American VeteransCovered position: N/A27 filingsthrough 2015
Marquis BarefieldDisabled American VeteransCovered position: Assistant National Legislative Director24 filingsthrough 2025
Shurhonda Yvette LoveDisabled American Veterans21 filingsthrough 2018
Peter DickinsonMr. Peter DickinsonCovered position: Staff Member, House Comm. on Veterans' Affairs20 filingsthrough 2013
Jeremy M VillanuevaDisabled American VeteransCovered position: Assistant National Legislative Director19 filingsthrough 2021
Paul R VarelaDisabled American Veterans19 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey C HallDisabled American VeteransCovered position: N/A17 filingsthrough 2014
Naomi Marie MathisDisabled American VeteransCovered position: Deputy National Legislative Director16 filingsthrough 2026
Raymond McgrathDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2012
