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: iowa-hospital-association.
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.
10 filings
$720K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$319K on those filings
Unemployment
UNM
2 filings
$135K on those filings
Veterans
VET
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$10K 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
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 672114th CongressRural Community Hospital Demonstration Extension Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 257114th CongressProtecting Access to Rural Therapy Services (PARTS) Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 258114th CongressCritical Access Hospital Relief Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 332114th CongressRural Hospital Access Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 607114th CongressRural Community Hospital Demonstration Extension Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1250113th CongressMedicare Audit Improvement Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Robert Siggins
Alston & Bird LLP
Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
