Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 7 clients
82 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 4 clients
76 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Health Issues
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Timothy W Jenkins292 filings21 clients · through 2026
Brent HeberleeCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Director, Sen Richard Bryan192 filings21 clients · through 2023
Maria TripplaarCovered position: Staff Dir. & Chief Counsel, Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir., Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir. & Counsel, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, Comm. on Veterans' Affairs, House of Rep.159 filings13 clients · through 2026
Sherry Harper WidicusCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Ron Kind39 filings6 clients · through 2020
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Rosenbauer International Ag
Austria
1 filing
through 2025
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Asa
Norway
1 filing
through 2025
Sap Se
The filings
The 20 most recent of 405 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: ballard-spahr-llp.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $10.4M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HCR · 7 clients
68 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 7 clients
59 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 4 clients
47 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Housing
HOU · 3 clients
40 filings
$800K on those filings
Banking
BAN · 3 clients
33 filings
$570K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA · 1 client
30 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 5 clients
29 filings
$560K on those filings
Veterans
VET · 3 clients
25 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 2 clients
24 filings
$760K on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
24 filings
$660K 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 money 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.
Edward G RendellCovered position: N/A24 filings4 clients · through 2024
Kate Belinski12 filings2 clients · through 2019
Dennis BurkeCovered position: U.S. Attorney District of Arizona
Senior Advisor at DHS8 filings1 client · through 2022
Katlyn Koegel6 filings1 client · through 2026
Brian Pinheiro6 filings1 client · through 2019
ADRIAN R KING jrCovered position: N/A5 filings2 clients · through 2012
David WinsteadCovered position: GSA Commissioner3 filings2 clients · through 2010
Sherry WidiusCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Legislative Director for Rep. Kind2 filings1 client · through 2019
Chloe Jensine Steadman1 filing1 client · through 2017
Chase Andrew Bales1 filing1 client · through 2017
Joseph Andrew Kanefield1 filing1 client · through 2017
Scott Andrew Smith1 filing1 client · through 2017
Covered positions · 8 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
Germany
1 filing
through 2021
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
