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: kidney-care-council.
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.
TAX
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$80K 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.
115th Congress
Chronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 2017
16 filingsthrough 2018
S. 870115th CongressCreating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 201714 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3178115th CongressMedicare Part B Improvement Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
S. 691110th CongressKidney Care Quality and Education Act of 200713 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1458114th CongressBACPAC Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 200812 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3166115th CongressTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide under the Medicare program for independent accreditation for dialysis facilities and assurance of high quality surveys with respect to such facilities.10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3976115th CongressAccess to Marketplace Insurance Act10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5942115th CongressHealth Equity and Accountability Act of 201810 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1193110th CongressKidney Care Quality and Education Act of 200710 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6115th CongressSUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1890115th CongressChronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1295114th CongressTrade Preferences Extension Act of 20157 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.
through 2017
Carolyn E SmithAlston & Bird LLP30 filingsthrough 2017
Thomas A ScullyAlston & Bird LLP26 filingsthrough 2015
Regina Maria SherickAlston & Bird LLP25 filingsthrough 2017
Tracy SpicerAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy;Political Director, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy;Legislative Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy;Special Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy;Staff Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy17 filingsthrough 2018
Elizabeth Macdonald BarnettAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln;Speechwriter, Sen. Blanche Lincoln;Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Blanche Lincoln;Staff Assistant, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources16 filingsthrough 2018
Dan EllingLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Director, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee; Professional Staff, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee; Health Policy Aide, Rep. Nancy Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Ramstad9 filingsthrough 2019
Regina Maria SherickLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senate Finance Committee9 filingsthrough 2019
Thomas A ScullyLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Administrator & Consultant, CMS; Dep. Asst. to President; Counselor to the Dir., Dir. for Hum. Res. Vets and Labor; Associate Dir. for Legislative Affairs, OMB9 filingsthrough 2019
Colin RoskeyLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor and Counsel, Senate Finance Committee8 filingsthrough 2018
Matthew Todd TutenSquire Patton Boggs8 filingsthrough 2010
Stephanie A KennanAlston & Bird LLP7 filingsthrough 2011
Robert Dennis ForemanThe Kidney Care CouncilCovered position: Director, CMS Office of Legislation7 filingsthrough 2009
Danielle WhiteAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Intern, Senate HELP Committee; Intern, HHS Office of General Counsel (CMS Division); Intern, Staff Assistant and Executive Assistant, Rep. Nancy Johnson.6 filingsthrough 2017
Colin RoskeyCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Counsel, Senate Finance Committee6 filingsthrough 2014
