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
24 filings
$480K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
23 filings
$570K 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. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 4442114th CongressCONNECT for Health Act1 filingthrough 2016
Ann KempskiPermanente Federation19 filingsthrough 2017
Erica StockerMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 2000-2009: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Saxton9 filingsthrough 2024
Sarah Kuehl EggeSplitoak Strategies LLCCovered position: Sarah: 1998-2000 Legislative Assistant to Senator Bob Kerrey; 2001-2012 Senior Budget Analyst for Democratic Staff of the Senate Budget Committee (Kent Conrad); Fall 2011, Deputy Staff Director, Joint Select Committee for Deficit Reduction7 filingsthrough 2026
Rachel StaufferMcdermott+ LLC 2013-2015: Health Policy Director, Rep. Diana DeGette; 2008-2011: Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. John Tierney
The filings
The 20 most recent of 53 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: the-permanente-federation.
fees reported
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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
114th Congress
21st Century Cures Act
1 filingthrough 2015
S. 2484114th CongressCONNECT for Health Act1 filingthrough 2016
H.R. 4015113th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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:
7 filingsthrough 2024
Amy JensenSplitoak Strategies LLCCovered position: Amy: 1999-2001 Assistant to the Speaker for Policy; 2003-2005 Special Assistant to the President for Special Affairs6 filingsthrough 2026
