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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
60 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
31 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Education
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Courtney Yohe SavageCovered position: Paid Intern, Rep. John Olver (December 2003 - January 2004)49 filings1 client · through 2022
Nicholas Ryan BeekCovered position: Legislative Aide, Office of Rep. Mark Takai (June 2016 - July 2016), Legislative Aide, Office of Hawaii's First Congressional District (July 2016 - November 2016), Legislative Aide, Office of Rep Colleen Hanabusa (November 2016 - January 2017)26 filings1 client · through 2022
Madeleine Grace Stirling23 filings1 client · through 2019
Phillip A Bongiorno18 filings1 client · through 2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: the-society-of-thoracic-surgeons.
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 $0 in fees and $8.9M in expenses.
EDU · 1 client
22 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 1 client
19 filings
$3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
19 filings
$3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
6 filings
$715K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
5 filings
$992K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
5 filings
$555K on those filings
Tobacco
TOB · 1 client
5 filings
$555K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR · 1 client
2 filings
$260K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
2 filings
$220K 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.
Josh Krantz
17 filings1 client · through 2017
Amanda Grimm Wiegrefe14 filings1 client · through 2019
Molly Peltzman13 filings1 client · through 2026
Iain Mackay Adams13 filings1 client · through 2026
Robert J Kohlmeyer13 filings1 client · through 2012
Haley Brown11 filings1 client · through 2025
Kelly Irene McconeCovered position: Scheduler, Office of Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (September 2017-May 2018); Scheduler, Office of Congressman Mark Pocan (May 2018-May 2020)11 filings1 client · through 2022
Derek Brandt10 filings1 client · through 2025
Julie Galloway Mabeus9 filings1 client · through 2022
Elyssa Hesky5 filings1 client · through 2015
Rachel Claire Pollock4 filings1 client · through 2026
Jonathan CauseyCovered position: Staff Assistant - Rep. Howard Coble4 filings1 client · through 2010
A Kirsi Mendoza3 filings1 client · through 2008
J MICHAEL HOGAN jrCovered position: 1993-94:Legislative Director, Rep. Peter Deutsch (D-FL)3 filings1 client · through 2008
Haley Howell2 filings1 client · through 2026
John Hedstrom2 filings1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 20 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.
