Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR · 35 clients
484 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 20 clients
343 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Patrick CooneyCovered position: Rep. Dick Swett623 filings44 clients · through 2026
John WilliamsCovered position: Legislative Assistant337 filings20 clients · through 2025
Paul T Kelly248 filings24 clients · through 2018
Don LavantyCovered position: Legislative Assistant67 filings3 clients · through 2020
Scott C Leezer Legislative staff for Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Redsense Medical
Sweden
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.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 690 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Client
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
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: the-federal-group-inc.
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 $11.2M in fees and $0 in expenses.
BUD · 11 clients
106 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 4 clients
61 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 3 clients
54 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 5 clients
48 filings
$805K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
40 filings
$920K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 3 clients
38 filings
$775K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 4 clients
31 filings
$665K on those filings
Veterans
VET · 2 clients
26 filings
$605K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 1 client
18 filings
$265K on those filings
Torts
TOR · 1 client
14 filings
$280K 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.
Covered position:
35 filings7 clients · through 2017
Taylor Turner6 filings1 client · through 2026
Michelle Artz6 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 4 of 7 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.
