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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$660K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
66 filings
$660K 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 33 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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-scleroderma-foundation.
spend on filings that named this issue
117th Congress
Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2477117th CongressFAMILIES Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1600114th CongressPatients' Access to Treatments Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1429113th CongressScleroderma Research and Awareness Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3666114th CongressScleroderma and Fibrosis Research Enhancement Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3114113th CongressHelping Families and Seniors Save on Health Care Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1239113th CongressScleroderma Research and Awareness Act6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3446116th CongressNational Commission on Scleroderma and Fibrotic Diseases Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2477116th CongressNational Commission on Scleroderma and Fibrotic Diseases Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3742114th CongressAccess to Marketplace Insurance Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 460113th CongressPatients' Access to Treatments Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2408111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1672112th CongressScleroderma Research and Awareness Act of 20114 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.
18 filingsthrough 2013
Joseph StewartHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant12 filingsthrough 2017
Gavin LindbergHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant12 filingsthrough 2011
Joshua David FeinHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant8 filingsthrough 2026
Meaghan PilarcikHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant6 filingsthrough 2012
Katherine CruzHealth and Medicine Counsel2 filingsthrough 2024
Kathleen HallHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant2 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
