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.
Paul SeltmanSmith & Nephew, Inc.Covered position: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation,HHS; Counsel, Senate Budget Committee; Counsel, House Budget Committee; Deputy Chief of Staff, Congressman Major R. Owens; Associate Counsel, House Education and Labor Committee.62 filingsthrough 2026
JOHN E. MARTIN jrSmith & Nephew, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Roe; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jeb Hensarling; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Rick Santorum; Staff Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.44 filingsthrough 2026
Jane LoewensonNvg, LLCCovered position: Health Fellow, Sen. George Mitchell, Prof. Staff Member, Subcomm. on Children and Families of the Sen. Labor and Human Resources Committee; Sen. Chris Dodd, Sr Health Policy Advisor; Sen. Thomas Daschle, Sr Health Policy Advisor
The filings
The 20 most recent of 167 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: smith-nephew-inc.
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.
TAX
119 filings
$26.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
38 filings
$13.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
34 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
31 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
13 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
12 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Veterans
VET
7 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
3 filings
$870K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
1 filing
$50K 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.
117th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.
15 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act15 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1018114th CongressPatient Access to Disposable Medical Technology Act of 201513 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1253114th CongressPatient Access to Disposable Medical Technology Act of 201513 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3665118th CongressDefending American Jobs and Investment Act11 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 160114th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S. 149114th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 523113th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
S. 232113th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act11 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.9 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2052113th CongressGlobal Investment in American Jobs Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1931119th CongressAccess to Pediatric Technologies Act of 20258 filingsthrough 2025
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.
40 filings
through 2024
Lisa German FosterNvg, LLCCovered position: Sen. Jack Reed, Sr. Policy Advisor38 filingsthrough 2024
Bonnie Hogue DuffyNvg, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor - Senate Democratic Policy Committee; Legislative Assistant - Sen. Jack Reed; Professional Staff - Senate Special Committee on Aging36 filingsthrough 2024
Rachel Jones HenslerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Tax Policy Dir.; Office of U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Correspondent34 filingsthrough 2026
Stacey HughesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Deputy Staff DirectorOffice of the Asst. Maj. Leader (Sen. Nickles), Policy Adv.Office of the Asst. Min. Leader (Sen. Nickles), Policy Adv.Senate Spec. Cmte on Aging (Sen Cohen), Prof. Staff MemberU.S. Senator Connie Mack, Leg. Asst / Scheduler27 filingsthrough 2020
Greg D'AngeloThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: White House Office of Management and Budget, Associate Director of Health Programs; Senate Committee on the Budget (Sen. Gregg, Sen. Sessions, and Sen. Enzi), Professional Staff Member.23 filingsthrough 2026
Brett BakerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Senators Crapo, Grassley, and Hatch)-Deputy Health Policy Director; Health Policy Dir.; Senior Policy Advsr; Policy Advisor. U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means (Reps. Camp and Ryan) Prof. Staff21 filingsthrough 2026
Todd SpanglerSmith & Nephew, Inc.Covered position: House Ed & Workforce Cte; Senate HELP Cte6 filingsthrough 2014
Molly FrommThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: (continued) U.S. House Cmte on Oversight and Government Reform, Deputy General Counsel, Parliamentarian, Professional Staff Member; U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, Leg. Asst., Leg. Corr., Staff Asst., Intern5 filingsthrough 2026
Mary Beth Savary TaylorThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Joint Economic Committee, General Counsel; U.S. Senator Connie Mack, Legislative Assistant1 filingthrough 2022
Jeff ChoudhryThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Director; U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Assistant / Staff Assistant; House Small Business Committee, Intern1 filingthrough 2018
Jeremy ScottFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Staff Asst./Leg. Corr., Senator Mike DeWine1 filingthrough 2013
Andrew BowmanFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator Chris Dodd1 filingthrough 2013
