42 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed May 24, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.1M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$190K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
28 filings
$959K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
20 filings
$701K 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 33 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1342114th CongressHome Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S. 578114th CongressHome Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
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: visiting-nurse-association-of-america.
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
Care Planning Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1650114th CongressHome Health Documentation and Program Improvement Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1458114th CongressBACPAC Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3119114th CongressPalliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3484110th CongressHospice Protection Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 379114th CongressNational Nurse Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 704114th CongressCommunity Based Independence for Seniors Act4 filingsthrough 2015
S. 3101110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1202114th CongressMedicare Patient Access to Hospice Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2748114th CongressPalliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2866113th CongressIn-Home CARE Act3 filingsthrough 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.
Mary Beth StantonDentons US LLPCovered position: LA, Sen. Kohl (D-WI)
5 filingsthrough 2009
Mary Beth LangowskiDentons US LLPCovered position: Prof. Staff, Senate Agriculture5 filingsthrough 2009
Erin BookDentons US LLP4 filingsthrough 2009
Sharon PearceDentons US LLPCovered position: LD, Rep. Green (D-TX)3 filingsthrough 2008
Joyce Aileen CowanDentons US LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Bob WardwellVnaa1 filingthrough 2008
Emma McmahonVnaa1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
