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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
44 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Veterans
VET
32 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 29 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Rich MeadePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1994-96: Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Nussle; 1997-2003: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Nussle; 2001-05: Chief of Staff, Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives42 filingsthrough 2022
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: global-medical-response-formerly-american-medical-response.
15 filings
$720K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$220K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$30K 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.
115th Congress
Comprehensive Operations, Sustainability, and Transport Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 745114th CongressMedicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 377114th CongressMedicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2443111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1066111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1679111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1892115th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5149114th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the circumstances under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall provide reimbursement for emergency ambulance services.3 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Vickie Walling
Prime Policy Group
24 filingsthrough 2018
Elizabeth Hart ThompsonPrime Policy Group12 filingsthrough 2021
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 Yarmuth10 filingsthrough 2021
Mark DislerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A10 filingsthrough 2019
Jerry KlepnerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A10 filingsthrough 2012
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 House6 filingsthrough 2021
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), NIH4 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 Legislation4 filingsthrough 2022
Andrew J TerpPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2012-2016: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Todd Young (IN-09); 2017-2019 Legislative Assistant, Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)2 filingsthrough 2021
Kevin KlinkenbergPrime Policy Group2 filingsthrough 2019
R Scott PastrickPrime Policy Group1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 10 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
