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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
7 filings
$440K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$400K 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 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2860110th CongressHealth Care Access and Rural Equity (H-CARE) Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
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: texas-association-for-home-care.
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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
110th Congress
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2007
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6873110th CongressMedicare Hospice Protection Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1605110th CongressCraig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1678110th CongressHome Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3101110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3484110th CongressHospice Protection Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 517111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 4111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 457111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2567110th CongressMedicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 5704110th CongressMedicare Home Health Flexibility Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 6826110th CongressHome Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 20081 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.
Covered position:
4 filingsthrough 2009
Marcus A KrakerThe Loeffler Group4 filingsthrough 2008
Bill PewittBill Pewitt3 filingsthrough 2008
Mike MclamoreTexas Association for Home Care2 filingsthrough 2009
Anita BradberryTexas Association for Home Care1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 2 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
