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
34 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
8 filings
$460K 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 53 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 485118th CongressProtecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 202313 filingsthrough 2024
Yong ChoeYc Consulting, LLCCovered position: Director, Business Outreach and Member Services, Republican Study Committee Legislative Clerk, House Energy and Commerce Committee14 filingsthrough 2026
Chelsey Penrod HickmanWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: CoS, LD, Rep. Kay Granger; Deputy LD, LA Sen. Larry Craig14 filingsthrough 2022
Donna MullinsWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: CoS/Approps Staff, Rep. Frelinghuysen and Rep. Dean Gallo; CoS Senator Chiesa9 filingsthrough 2021
Michael A MerolaWinning Strategies Washington
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: patients-rising-now.
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
118th Congress
Lower Costs, More Transparency Act
6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1262119th CongressMikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 955119th CongressHOPE Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
S. 932119th CongressGive Kids a Chance Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1092118th CongressBENEFIT Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2023
S. 127118th CongressPharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1613118th CongressDrug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 2880118th CongressProtecting Patients Against PBM Abuses Act4 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 1385118th CongressDOC Access Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Covered position: Deputy CoS, Sen. Torricelli
9 filingsthrough 2021
Nancy FoxWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: Staff Director House Appropriations Committee, Chief of Staff Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ) Scheduler Rep. Marge Roukema (NJ), Scheduler Rep. Silvio O. Conte (MA)9 filingsthrough 2021
Davis Mcrae Wall HagighPatients Rising Now7 filingsthrough 2023
Rachel DerbyPatients Rising NowCovered position: Staff Assistant / Deputy Scheduler, Senator Mel Martinez; LC, Senator George LeMieux5 filingsthrough 2023
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning;3 filingsthrough 2023
Michael A. GaffinThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Sen. Sherrod Brown; Leg. Director, Rep. Rob Andrews; Leg. Asst., Rep. Anna Eshoo; Jr. Leg. Assoc., House Ed and Labor Committee, Rep. George Miller; Staff Asst. Senate HELP Committee, Sen. Edward Kennedy3 filingsthrough 2023
Robert ZuckerWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: LD, Rep. Rothman; LA, Rep. Evans (IL); Sen. Lautenberg3 filingsthrough 2022
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2023
Molly McdonnellWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: LC/LA/Senior Health Policy Advisor; Congressman Leonard Lance2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 11 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
