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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
27 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$280K 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1146113th CongressConsistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2104112th CongressConsistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
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: society-of-diagnostic-medical-sonography-sdms.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 2007
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3737111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3963110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
9 filingsthrough 2015
Irene B NsiahK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2012
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senate EPW Comm; Chief Cnsl Sen. Fin. Comm.6 filingsthrough 2010
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman4 filingsthrough 2015
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator3 filingsthrough 2015
Donald DempseyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LA, Sen Gramm; LA Sen Kyl; Director of Health Policy, Sen Budget Committee; LD, Sen Burr; Associate Director, OMB3 filingsthrough 2015
Britt Julia SandlerK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2010
