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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
53 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 452 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 728116th CongressTitle VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 201915 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2056116th CongressTo recognize and honor the service of individuals who served in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II, and for other purposes.14 filingsthrough 2020
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-league-for-nursing.
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.
37 filings
$763K on those filings
Education
EDU
35 filings
$838K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
35 filings
$740K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
23 filings
$625K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
22 filings
$600K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
22 filings
$600K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
17 filings
$467K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
8 filings
$213K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$85K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
3 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.
116th Congress
Mental Health Professionals Workforce Shortage Loan Repayment Act of 2019
13 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 202010 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3849116th CongressMidwives for MOMS Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 618118th CongressImproving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 704118th CongressPromoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 131118th CongressImproving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 198118th CongressRural Health Clinic Burden Reduction Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 260118th CongressPromoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 365118th CongressDream Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1025117th CongressKids’ Access to Primary Care Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1195117th CongressWorkplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1956117th CongressIncreasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 379117th CongressImproving Social Determinants of Health Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Melinda RayKar Associates, LLC
8 filingsthrough 2012
Dave MasonNational League for Nursing4 filingsthrough 2020
Mary JagimKar Associates, LLC2 filingsthrough 2008
