Employers for Flexibility in Heath Care… — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Employers for Flexibility in Heath Care Coalition (Informal Coalition)
District of Columbia
12 filings from 1 registrant · 2013–2015 · latest filed Jan 15, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
12 filings
$1.3M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2575113th CongressSave American Workers Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2712114th CongressCommonsense Reporting and Verification Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
Heather MeadeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)13 filingsthrough 2015
Sarah Kuehl EggeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 98-00 Legislative Assistant to Senator Bob Kerrey01-12 Budget Analyst, Senate Budget Committee11 Dep Staff Dir, Joint Select Cmte on Deficit Red13 filingsthrough 2015
Daniel EsquibelErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)9 filingsthrough 2014
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 92-95 Leg Officer, National Institutes of Health95-97 Leg Analyst, National Institutes of Health1996 Health Policy Fellow to Sen Kassebaum97-00 Staff Dir, to Senator Bill Frist2000 Health Policy Staff, Bush Transition Team01-02 Spec Asst to President (Health), White House
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2015
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: employers-for-flexibility-in-heath-care-coalition-informal-coalition.
114th Congress
Save American Workers Act of 2015
3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3112114th CongressBe Open Act1 filingthrough 2015
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.
8 filingsthrough 2014
Amy Jensen CunniffeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 99-01 Assistant to the Speaker for Policy; 03-05 Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs3 filingsthrough 2015
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 2007 Whip Liaison to Sen Min Whip Trent Lott2 filingsthrough 2015
Ray BeemanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 01-05 Legislation Counsel, JTC; 11-14 Tax Counsel/ Special Advisor-Tax Reform, W&M2 filingsthrough 2015
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 03-06 Staff Dir. Senate Cmte on Small Business1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
