Houston Methodist — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Houston Methodist
Texas
17 filings from 2 registrants · 2013–2016 · latest filed Dec 30, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$760K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$760K
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.
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$760K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
16 filings
$760K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 36 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2646114th CongressHelping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 20166 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act6 filingsthrough 2016
Hilary FulpMcdonald Hopkins Government Strategies, LLCCovered position: LegAsst/StaffAsst/Intern, Congressman Steven LaTourette16 filingsthrough 2016
Matt HenkenMcdonald Hopkins Government Strategies, LLCCovered position: Congressional Aide, Congressman Mark Udall15 filingsthrough 2016
Jennifer LatouretteMcdonald Hopkins Government Strategies, LLCCovered position: Press Intern/DeputyFinanceDirector, Senator Max Baucus13 filingsthrough 2016
Steven C LatouretteMcdonald Hopkins Government Strategies, LLC Member, U.S. House of Representatives
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: houston-methodist.
15 filings
$710K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$50K 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.
S. 577113th CongressResident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5273114th CongressHelping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1695114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2131113th CongressSKILLS Visa Act3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4870113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act3 filingsthrough 2013
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:
4 filingsthrough 2016
Lauren Henry CowlesMcdonald Hopkins Government Strategies, LLCCovered position: Appropriations Legislative Assistant, Senator Mark Pryor; Professional Staff Member, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Legislative Correspondent; Senator Mark Pryor; Staff Assistant, Senator Mark Pryor2 filingsthrough 2016
