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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Anna G. EshooD-California-AL
Bills: H.R. 1478, H.R. 1691, H.R. 20 +8 more
93 filings
2 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steven RixenVizient, Inc.48 filingsthrough 2023
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Senate Majority Leader Frist ; ; Staff Dir, Sen Subcmte on Public Health; Majority Health ; ; Policy Counsel, House Cmte on Ways & Means, Subcmte on ; ; Health; Health Policy Coordinator & Counsel; Sen Cmte on ; ; Labor & Human Resources; Counsel & Prof Staff, Cmte on ; ; Labor & Human Resources, Subcmte on Disability Policy ; ; Case Worker, Rep. R. Boschwitz47 filingsthrough 2026
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: vizient-inc.
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.
TAX
61 filings
$9.5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
25 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$640K 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
21st Century Cures Act
11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3008118th CongressDrug Shortage Prevention Act of 202310 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act10 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2543116th CongressPrescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 201910 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4189118th CongressCONNECT for Health Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2016118th CongressCONNECT for Health Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Lauren AronsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dir., Office of Legis., CMS; Professional Staff Member, Cmte on Ways & Means; Policy Dir., White House; Policy Dir., HHS Office of Health Reform (detailed to the White House); Policy Advisor, (Rep. R. Emanuel); Health LA, (Rep. C. McCarthy)28 filingsthrough 2026
Edward GoodmanVizient, Inc.28 filingsthrough 2015
Jenna SternVizient, Inc.26 filingsthrough 2026
Darren WebbVizient, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Counsel - Congressman Sam Johnson17 filingsthrough 2026
Alyene MlinarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Pol Adv (Maj Leader Scalise); Pol Adv (Min Whip Scalise); Pol Adv (House Oversight/Govt Reform Comm); Prof Staff Member (Ways and Means Subcom on Health/Brady), Pol Adv (Sen Rep Policy Comm/Barrasso); Leg Asst (Senator Ben Sasse)11 filingsthrough 2026
Caitlin Van SantMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, Leg Dir, Interim COS (Rep. Butterfield)6 filingsthrough 2026
Brian BallardBallard Partners5 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 Gaetz.5 filingsthrough 2026
Jeff MillerBallard PartnersCovered position: Former Member U.S. Congress4 filingsthrough 2025
Ali IcenhowerVizient, Inc.1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 7 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
