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: fresenius-medical-care-north-america.
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.
LBR
34 filings
$680K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
25 filings
$500K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$440K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$7.6M on those filings
Veterans
VET
5 filings
$1.1M 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.
118th Congress
Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act
15 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2199119th CongressRestore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act14 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1173119th CongressRestore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act13 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4143116th CongressSuper Pollutants Act of 201912 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2065116th CongressDeepfake Report Act of 201911 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2730119th CongressKidney Care Access Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4065117th CongressChronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8594117th CongressRestore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4143115th CongressDialysis PATIENTS Demonstration Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2065115th CongressDialysis PATIENTS Demonstration Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 4469118th CongressChronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 20246 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4510118th CongressKidney PATIENT Act of 20246 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.
39 filingsthrough 2016
Joseph H GibsonThe Gibson Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel for Legislative & Intergovernmental Affairs Anti-Trust Division, DOJ 2001-2002; Chief Antitrust Counsel, House Judiciary Committee 1997-2001; Counsel, House Judiciary Committee 1995-199737 filingsthrough 2026
Peter W ThomasPowers Pyles Sutter & Verville, P.C.Covered position: Principal34 filingsthrough 2017
Taleen MekhdjavakianFresenius Medical Care North America33 filingsthrough 2026
George Nicholas CaramMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Officer, Special Assistant, National Security Council; Sr. LA, LA, LC, Sr. Staff Asst, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Special Asst, Rep. C.W. Bill Young32 filingsthrough 2026
Tracy SpicerAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Political Director, Legislative Assistant, Special Assistant, Staff Assistant - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy30 filingsthrough 2024
Stacey FahrnerFresenius Medical Care North America28 filingsthrough 2022
Laura KemperFresenius Medical Care North AmericaCovered position: Counselor to the Secretary - HHS, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation - HHS, Counsel - Us Senator John Cornyn, Health Policy Advisor to Representative Tom Price - US House of Representatives24 filingsthrough 2025
Jonathon JonesTiber Creek Health Strategies, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Carper; Legislative Director, Senator Carper.22 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy Farrell HanneganPenn Avenue PartnersCovered position: U.S. General Accounting Office22 filingsthrough 2025
Jerr RosenbaumPenn Avenue PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. John Cornyn; Chief of Staff, Rep. Robert Hurt; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jack Kingston; Chief of Staff, Rep. Virgil Goode22 filingsthrough 2025
Jay SulzmannPenn Avenue PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director/Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Johnny Isakson; Sr. Policy Advisor/LA/LC/SA, Rep. Wally Herger22 filingsthrough 2025
Dan EllingFederal Health Policy StrategiesCovered position: Staff Director, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee; Professional Staff, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee; Health Policy Aide, Rep. Nancy Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Ramstad21 filingsthrough 2026
John Michael GonzalezTiber Creek Health Strategies, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean (2005-2009); Chief of Staff, Rep. Chris Bell (2003-2005)20 filingsthrough 2026
Corey MalmgrenTiber Creek Health Strategies, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Bill Nelson, Deputy Legislative Director & Health Counsel (2015-2018); Rep. Sandy Levin, Legislative Counsel (2013-2015), Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant (2008-2009); House Committee on Ways and Means, Legal Clerk/Intern (2010)20 filingsthrough 2026
Dan EllingLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Director, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee; Professional Staff, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee; Health Policy Aide, Rep. Nancy Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Ramstad20 filingsthrough 2021
Thomas A ScullyLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Administrator & Consultant, CMS; Dep. Asst. to President; Counselor to the Dir., Dir. for Hum. Res. Vets and Labor; Associate Dir. for Legislative Affairs, OMB20 filingsthrough 2021
JAMES BRYANT HALL iiTiber Creek Health Strategies, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee; Legislative Director, Senator Bob Graham.18 filingsthrough 2025
Colin RoskeyLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor and Counsel, Senate Finance Committee17 filingsthrough 2021
David JonesCapitol Counsel LLC17 filingsthrough 2014
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Mike Ross ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln17 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 59 of 90 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
