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: muscular-dystrophy-association-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.
45 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
44 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
37 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
29 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Insurance
INS
27 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
24 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
17 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Education
EDU
15 filings
$2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
14 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Retirement
RET
7 filings
$640K 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
Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education Amendments of 2014
16 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 647113th CongressABLE Act of 201415 filingsthrough 2014
S. 313113th CongressABLE Act of 201315 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act13 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1516114th CongressEnsuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1013114th CongressEnsuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1417113th CongressNewborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
S. 350117th CongressNewborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 202110 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 209114th CongressEnsuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2015
S. 139114th CongressEnsuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3423112th CongressABLE Act of 20119 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1872112th CongressABLE Act of 20119 filingsthrough 2012
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.
16 filings
through 2018
Brittany Johnson HernandezMuscular Dystrophy Association, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2021
Michael Kennally LewisMuscular Dystrophy Association, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2023
