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
70 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
56 filings
$2.3M 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
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3931116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1905116th CongressENROLL Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
Catherine FinleyThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Special Aging Committee; Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Smith; Legislative Asst, Sen. Snowe54 filingsthrough 2025
Jessie Howe BrairtonThorn Run PartnersCovered position: SrLA/LA:CongL.Smith;LC,Asst:SenAgingComm20 filingsthrough 2018
Alex DelpizzoThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director/Legislative Asst, Rep. Ferguson; Staff, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee18 filingsthrough 2018
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: national-council-for-mental-wellbeing.
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
117th Congress
Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Act of 2021
6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2069117th CongressExcellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3931115th CongressExcellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 7545118th CongressTo amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include certified community behavioral health clinic services as a State plan option under the Medicaid program, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2993118th CongressEnsuring Excellence in Mental Health Act3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2938117th CongressBipartisan Safer Communities Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act3 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1905115th CongressExcellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1767116th CongressExcellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act1 filingthrough 2019
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.
Jane LucasAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, White House Office of Legislative Affairs; Principal Deputy Director, IOS-Office of Health Reform, HHS; Legislative Director, U.S. Senator John Thune.7 filingsthrough 2026
James Patrick PaluskiewiczAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel, House Health Subcommittee; Professional Staff, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Legislative Dir./Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Burgess; Legislative Dir., Rep. Charlie Norwood; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Tubbs Jones.7 filingsthrough 2026
Alexander GrafAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services; Finance Health Subcommittee Staff Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Aide, Deputy Scheduler, Staff Assistant, Senator Debbie Stabenow.7 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy P TryslaAlston & Bird LLP3 filingsthrough 2026
Laura FriedelAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Senate Appropriations Committee - Staff Director, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies; Legislative Director/Legislative Assistant, Senator Richard Shelby; Legislative Assistant, Senator Zell Miller.3 filingsthrough 2026
Anderson Drew FergusonAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives.2 filingsthrough 2025
Gary PalmquistThorn Run PartnersCovered position: LegDir-Dennis Cardoza,Bob Clement,Ken Bentsen2 filingsthrough 2018
Charles B. ThomasThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Senior Legislative Asst, Legislative Asst, Legislative Aide, Staff Asst; Rep. Robert Pittenger2 filingsthrough 2018
Mark RayderAlston & Bird LLP1 filingthrough 2026
Michael ParkAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Health Policy Counsel, Senate Finance Committee.1 filingthrough 2026
Yukino ParleAlston & Bird LLP1 filingthrough 2026
Beena S. PatelFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 13 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
