131 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2021 · latest filed Mar 4, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$7.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$5.3M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.6M
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.
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: health-net-federal-services.
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.
38 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
34 filings
$1M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
5 filings
$500K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$130K on those filings
Insurance
INS
3 filings
$300K 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
Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2017
H.R. 1802115th CongressCARE for All Veterans Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1844115th CongressVeterans Access to Community Care Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1910115th CongressSupport Our Military Caregivers Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1942115th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Comptroller General of the United States to periodically conduct an audit of the Veterans Health Administration budget, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1954115th CongressServicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support Act of 20178 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.
18 filings
through 2013
JOHN JAMES LEONARD jrJohn Leonard17 filingsthrough 2013
Julia SusmanJefferson Business Consulting, LLC14 filingsthrough 2011
Melvin James LittigCongressional Strategies LLC14 filingsthrough 2011
James Michael LariviereCongressional Strategies LLCCovered position: House Armed Services Committee, Prof. Staff (1999-2003) House Veterans Affairs Committee, Staff Dir. & Min. Staff Dir. (2005-2008)9 filingsthrough 2016
Matthew RuestHealth Net Federal Services7 filingsthrough 2020
James Michael LariviereHealth Net Federal ServicesCovered position: Staff Director, House Committee on Veterans Affairs; Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Armed Services; Military Legislative Assistant, Rep. Steve Buyer7 filingsthrough 2018
Eric UelandThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Sen.Maj.Ldr; AsstCOS/COS, Sen.Maj.Ldr.6 filingsthrough 2009
Kenneth DubersteinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, President Reagan6 filingsthrough 2009
Brian GriffinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Sr. Ldrship Advisor, Sen. Dorgan6 filingsthrough 2009
Steven ChamplinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: ExecFlrAsst, H. Maj. Whip; ExecDir, H.DemCauc.6 filingsthrough 2009
Michael BermanThe Duberstein Group Inc.6 filingsthrough 2009
Nathan ButzlaffJefferson Business Consulting, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Angela McnamaraJefferson Business Consulting, LLC5 filingsthrough 2008
Donna L HoffmeierHealth Net Federal Services5 filingsthrough 2008
Henry GandyThe Duberstein Group Inc.4 filingsthrough 2008
Kelly F CravenHealth Net Federal ServicesCovered position: Dept. Staff Dir., House Veterans Affairs Cmte3 filingsthrough 2008
Marti ThomasThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Acting & Asst Sec. Legis. Affrs, Treasury2 filingsthrough 2009
Daniel P MeyerThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Asst. to President,Legis.Affairs, Pres. GW Bush2 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 10 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
