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.
Courtney Yohe SavageThe Society of Thoracic SurgeonsCovered position: Paid Intern, Rep. John Olver (December 2003 - January 2004)49 filingsthrough 2022
Nicholas Ryan BeekThe Society of Thoracic SurgeonsCovered position: Legislative Aide, Office of Rep. Mark Takai (June 2016 - July 2016), Legislative Aide, Office of Hawaii's First Congressional District (July 2016 - November 2016), Legislative Aide, Office of Rep Colleen Hanabusa (November 2016 - January 2017)26 filingsthrough 2022
Madeleine Grace StirlingThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons23 filingsthrough 2019
Phillip A BongiornoThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons
The filings
The 20 most recent of 74 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-society-of-thoracic-surgeons.
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.
23 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
19 filings
$3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
19 filings
$3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$739K on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$992K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
5 filings
$555K on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
5 filings
$555K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
2 filings
$260K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$220K 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.
115th Congress
Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2017
10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1215115th CongressProtecting Access to Care Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1662115th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit smoking in any facility of the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2222116th CongressWomen and Lung Cancer Research and Preventive Services Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3700116th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit smoking on the premises of any facility of the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1107116th CongressWomen and Lung Cancer Research and Preventive Services Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
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.
18 filings
through 2013
Josh KrantzThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons17 filingsthrough 2017
Amanda Grimm WiegrefeThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons14 filingsthrough 2019
Molly PeltzmanThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons13 filingsthrough 2026
Iain Mackay AdamsThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons13 filingsthrough 2026
Robert J KohlmeyerThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons13 filingsthrough 2012
Haley BrownThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons11 filingsthrough 2025
Kelly Irene McconeThe Society of Thoracic SurgeonsCovered position: Scheduler, Office of Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (September 2017-May 2018); Scheduler, Office of Congressman Mark Pocan (May 2018-May 2020)11 filingsthrough 2022
Derek BrandtThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons10 filingsthrough 2025
Julie Galloway MabeusThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons9 filingsthrough 2022
Camille BontaSummit Health Care ConsultingCovered position: U.S. Sen. John Glenn, Legislative Correspondent6 filingsthrough 2010
Elyssa HeskyThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons5 filingsthrough 2015
Rachel Claire PollockThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons4 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan CauseyThe Society of Thoracic SurgeonsCovered position: Staff Assistant - Rep. Howard Coble4 filingsthrough 2010
A Kirsi MendozaThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons3 filingsthrough 2008
J MICHAEL HOGAN jrThe Society of Thoracic SurgeonsCovered position: 1993-94:Legislative Director, Rep. Peter Deutsch (D-FL)3 filingsthrough 2008
Haley HowellThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons2 filingsthrough 2026
John HedstromThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
