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: international-hearing-society.
$160K
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.
12 filings
$320K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$170K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
5 filings
$120K on those filings
Education
EDU
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
1 filing
$20K 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.
114th Congress
Veterans Hearing Aid Access and Assistance Act
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2430115th CongressFDA Reauthorization Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.Res. 740115th CongressExpressing support for the designation of March 3, 2018, as World Hearing Day.7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3471114th CongressVeterans Mobility Safety Act of 20166 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 315114th CongressHearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6612116th CongressTo direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to prescribe the technical qualifications for licensed hearing aid specialists of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1652115th CongressOver-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3471115th CongressAmerican Job Creation and Investment Into Public Works Reform Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
S. 670115th CongressOver-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1344114th CongressEarly Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 20153 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.
Covered position: Director of the Office of Legislation, CMS; Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee; Counsel, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs; Counsel, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Brooks BrunsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Spec. Asst. to Chief of Staff-Hs. Republican Conf15 filingsthrough 2017
Jonathan TowersBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Staff Dir, Senate Vet Affairs, GOP Staff; Staff Dir, House Vet Affairs, GOP; Dep. Staff Dir, House Vet Affairs, GOP; Sr Health Policy Advisor, Senate Vet Affairs, GOP; Sr Prof Staff Mem. Senate Vet Affairs, GOP; Prof Staff Mem Senate Vet Affairs, GOP12 filingsthrough 2026
Karen SealanderMcdermott Will & Schulte LLP7 filingsthrough 2010
Gregory SunstrumBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff , Rep. Debbie Dingell; Deputy Chief of Staff and Leg. Director, Rep. Debbie Dingell ; Leg. Director, Rep. John Dingell; Leg. Assistant, Rep. John Dingell; Staff Assistant/Leg. Correspondent Rep. John Dingell5 filingsthrough 2026
Lauren Alexandra MishBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Intern, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01); Intern, Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of Global Affairs5 filingsthrough 2026
David ReidBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP5 filingsthrough 2023
Peter M. GoodloeBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, House Legislative Counsel; Health Counsel/Parliamentarian, House Committee on Energy and Commerce5 filingsthrough 2018
Christina CobaughBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP4 filingsthrough 2015
Ari ZimmermanBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Professional Staff Member, HASC; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. John Carter; Military Legis. Assistant, Rep. John Carter; Military Legislative Assistant, Rep. Trent Franks; Staff Assistant, Rep. Allen West; Legis. Correspondent, Rep. Allen West3 filingsthrough 2022
Lauren Page FlynnBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: House Approps Comm, Clerk/Staff Dir, Fin Services; Senate Approps Comm, Clerk/Staff Director, Fin Services; Sen John Kennedy, Sr Policy Advisor; Treasury, Dep Assist Secretary; Senate Approps, Prof Staff, Fin Services; GAO, Sr Analyst; GAO, Intern2 filingsthrough 2025
Gregory W BergerBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP2 filingsthrough 2018
Lori HarjuBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor, House Ways & Means Comm; Chief of Staff, Rep Kevin Brady; Deputy Chief/Leg Dir, Rep Kevin Brady; Dir of Legisl and Intergovernmental Affairs, Internatl Trade Admin-US Dept of Commerce; Legisl Dir., Rep Philip Crane2 filingsthrough 2018
Michael EisenbergBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Whip Coordinator Congressman Steny Hoyer ; ; Floor Assistant Congressman Steny Hoyer ; ; Staff Assistant Congressman Steny Hoyer ; ; Intern Senator John Edwards ; ; Intern Congressman Joe Hoeffel1 filingthrough 2013
R. James NicholsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Secretary - Dept. of Veterans Affairs ; ; Ambassador to Holy See - Dept. of State1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 15 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
