21 filings from 4 registrants · 2012–2019 · latest filed Oct 8, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$310K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$830K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
18 filings
$790K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
1 filing
$310K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2445115th CongressDATA Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4229115th CongressProtecting HOME Access Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
Michael M GabaHolland & Knight LLP9 filingsthrough 2017
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel, Sbcmte. on Constitution, H. Judiciary Cmte. ; ; Special Assistant to Speaker of the House ; ; Policy Director, House Majority Whip ; ; Director of Coalition Outreach, Speaker of House ; ; Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference9 filingsthrough 2017
Kerry FeeheryHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Asst., Special Asst., Dep. Press Sec., Sen. Connie Mac ; ; Press Secretary, Joint Economic Committee ; ; Policy Analyst, Senate Budget Committee ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Mel Martinez ; ; Director, State Office of Sen. George LeMieux ; ; Chief of Staff, Sen. George LeMieux
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: kci-usa-inc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
DME Access and Stabilization Act of 2015
5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2736114th CongressPatient Access to Durable Medical Equipment Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1018114th CongressPatient Access to Disposable Medical Technology Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2736115th CongressAsia Reassurance Initiative Act of 20181 filingthrough 2017
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.
9 filingsthrough 2017
Paul S. BockHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Herb Kohl ; ; Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee9 filingsthrough 2017
Karl KochHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Davis7 filingsthrough 2017
Shawna Francis WatleyHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA, Senator J. Robert Kerrey6 filingsthrough 2017
JULIUS W HOBSON jrPolsinelli PC2 filingsthrough 2017
Edward G RendellBallard Spahr LLPCovered position: N/A1 filingthrough 2012
ADRIAN R KING jrBallard Spahr LLPCovered position: N/A1 filingthrough 2012
Susan P MorrisKci USA, Inc.1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
