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.
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: vanderbilt-university.
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
72 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF
69 filings
$5M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
66 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
55 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
52 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
28 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
25 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
25 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
19 filings
$1.2M 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.
114th Congress
Campus Accountability and Safety Act
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2981113th CongressTRANSFER Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1806114th CongressAmerica COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act6 filingsthrough 2016
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:
16 filingsthrough 2017
Marjorie Sara GlickVanderbilt UniversityCovered position: Asst. Director, Vanderbilt University Federal Relations14 filingsthrough 2014
Mel BassVanderbilt UniversityCovered position: Director, Vanderbilt Med Ctr Federal Relations9 filingsthrough 2010
Brian BallardBallard Partners7 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz7 filingsthrough 2026
Sean JoyceAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Patrick McHenry; Legislative Director, Congressman Shuster; Communications Director, Congressman Shuster; Military Legislative Advisor, Congressman Shuster; Senior Legislative Advisor, Congressman Shuster7 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer BelairAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Continued: Rep. Jeb Hensarling; Parliamentarian-Rep. Pete Sessions; Legislative Director-Rep. Doug Collins; Legislative Director/Deputy Parliamentarian/Legislative Clerk/Staff Assistant, House Judiciary Cmte-Rep. Lamar Smith4 filingsthrough 2025
Kara M AllenVanderbilt UniversityCovered position: Asst. Director, Vanderbilt University Federal Relat3 filingsthrough 2012
Geoffrey H VincentVanderbilt UniversityCovered position: Asst Vice Chancellor, Federal Relations3 filingsthrough 2008
Robert ParmiterAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel/Senior Counsel/Counsel, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, & Homeland Security; Staff Asst., House Judiciary Committee2 filingsthrough 2026
Bobby CornettAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Head of Legislative Affairs, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Department of Defense; Deputy Chief of Staff, Congressman Trent Franks2 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher KimAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Intern, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga2 filingsthrough 2025
William BatesWashington Navigators1 filingthrough 2026
