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.
Health Issues
HCR
26 filings
$760K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
26 filings
$760K on those filings
Veterans
VET
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 2771116th CongressProtecting HOME Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2020
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: viemed.
10 filings
$300K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$90K 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.
116th Congress
Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020
2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 8158116th CongressTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive budget neutrality for oxygen under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.2 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.
9 filings
through 2021
Helen DwightThe Picard Group, LLCCovered position: LD and Sr. LA, Rep. Susan W. Brooks (2018-2015); Policy Advisor, Cory Gardner for U.S. Senate (2014); Sr. LA, Rep. Leonard Lance (2013); Sr. LA and LA, Rep. Charles Bass (2012-2011); LC and SA, Sen. Judd Gregg (2010-2009)4 filingsthrough 2026
Rodney AlexanderThe Picard Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress 2002-20131 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 3 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
