42 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 19, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$562K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$362K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$200K
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.
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: metropolitan-chicago-healthcare-council.
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.
25 filings
$330K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
8 filings
$112K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$50K on those filings
Torts
TOR
4 filings
$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.
113th Congress
DSH Reduction Relief Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1176111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 478111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1012113th CongressMedicare Audit Improvement Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2660113th CongressTrauma Relief Access for Universal Medical Assistance Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2931113th CongressFairness in Health Care Claims, Guidance, and Investigations Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 36113th CongressHealth Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3698113th CongressTwo-Midnight Rule Delay Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4188113th CongressEstablishing Beneficiary Equity in the Hospital Readmission Program Act4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1143113th CongressProtecting Access to Rural Therapy Services (PARTS) Act4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1152113th CongressBuilding a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1555113th CongressDSH Reduction Relief Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 961113th CongressHealth Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 20134 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 Hunt BradnerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 5/85-5/93 Various Positions, Office of Rep. John E. Porter ; ; 5/95-3/00 Counsel, Office of Rep. John E. Porter
3 filingsthrough 2011
Lisa HawkeHolland & Knight LLP3 filingsthrough 2011
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 12/89-12/94 Min. Cnsl, Sub. on Const & Civ. R., H. Jud. Cmte ; ; 1/95-10/97 Chief Cnsl., Subcom. on Const., H. Judiciary Cmte ; ; 10/97-12/98 Special Assistant to Speaker of the House ; ; 1/98-9/02 Policy Director, House Majority Whip ; ; 9/02-12/02 Director of Coalition Outreach, Speaker of House1 filingthrough 2011
