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: sheppard-pratt-health-system.
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.
21 filings
$630K on those filings
Veterans
VET
14 filings
$480K on those filings
Housing
HOU
11 filings
$330K on those filings
Insurance
INS
10 filings
$300K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$210K 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
Ban Surprise Billing Act
4 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6116th CongressAmerican Dream and Promise Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 4619119th CongressMedicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6938119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
S. 3402119th CongressEnsuring Excellence in Mental Health Act3 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8294117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5795115th CongressOverdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5797115th CongressIMD CARE Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5800115th CongressMedicaid IMD ADDITIONAL INFO Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6115th CongressSUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2587119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4531118th CongressSupport for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act2 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.
Kevin F KellyClark Hill, PLCCovered position: Chief Counsel/Floor Asst, Sec of the Democratic Conference; Chief Clerk/Maj Staff Dir, Senate VA/HUD Approps Subcommittee12 filingsthrough 2022
