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: hospital-sisters-health-system.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
4 filings
$200K 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.
2 filings
through 2013
H.R. 1787113th CongressRural Hospital Access Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1920113th CongressDSH Reduction Relief Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1201112th CongressThrift Savings Fund Improvement Act1 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 5943112th CongressRural Hospital Access Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 6352112th CongressResident Physician Shortage Reduction and Graduate Medical Education Accountability and Transparency Act1 filingthrough 2012
S. 2620112th CongressRural Hospital Access Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 1586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 469111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
JOHN FRANCIS WILLIAMS iiiHall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.Covered position: Press Secretary, House Committee on Government Reforms; Oversight and Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Burton13 filingsthrough 2016
Andrea Marlene BergmanMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: Michael Crapo2 filingsthrough 2014
Erica StockerMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: Saxton2 filingsthrough 2014
Andrea BergmanMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: Michael Crapo2 filingsthrough 2014
David Bradley FishHospital Sisters Health System1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 5 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
