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.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
60 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
58 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4123112th CongressFair Playing Field Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
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: envision-healthcare-formerly-known-as-emcare-inc.
HCR
58 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
53 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
49 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Insurance
INS
9 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.
112th Congress
Fair Playing Field Act of 2012
4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2252112th CongressRebuild America Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6128111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3786111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6128112th CongressHelp Separated Families Act of 20121 filingthrough 2011
S. 3786112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2011
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.
Covered position:
27 filingsthrough 2025
Michelle A LeedsFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Former Staff of Rep. Grace Napolitano20 filingsthrough 2016
Katie SchoettlerFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Communications Director & Senior Advisor - U.S. Senator Steve Daines; Press Secretary - House Committee on Natural Resources14 filingsthrough 2026
Jared RifisFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide; Legislative Assistant: Sen. Harry Reid13 filingsthrough 2026
William BallFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Sen. Susan Collins, 2010-2015; House Committee on Natural Resources, 2015-202012 filingsthrough 2023
Joseph L ColaneriFoley & Lardner LLP12 filingsthrough 2014
Kate M. KrosFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: None8 filingsthrough 2026
John StromFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel - U.S. House Cmte on Energy & Commerce; Counsel - U.S. Senate Cmte on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Associate General Counsel - U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services; Senior Counsel - U.S. House Cmte on Natural Resources8 filingsthrough 2026
Michael E. CapuanoFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Member of Congress, 1999-20198 filingsthrough 2021
Ian HopkinsFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Intern, Gabe Amo, Jan-May 2024; Intern, Jack Reed, May-July 20237 filingsthrough 2026
ROBERT C GEIST jrFoley & Lardner LLP3 filingsthrough 2010
