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.
Veterans
VET · 1 client
68 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
2 filings
$120K 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.
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Sharon Ann HodgeCovered position: Deputy Director for Policy and Government Affairs71 filings1 client · through 2023
John RowanCovered position: National President/CEO64 filings1 client · through 2021
Richard WeidmanCovered position: Executive Director for Policy and Government Affairs61 filings1 client · through 2021
Bernard Lewis EdelmanCovered position: Deputy Director for Policy and Government Affairs53 filings1 client · through 2020
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: vietnam-veterans-of-america.
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 $3.6M in expenses.
money on filings that named this issue
Tom BergerCovered position: Executive, Director Veterans Health Council50 filings1 client · through 2019
James KuhnCovered position: Senior Advisor, Government Affairs49 filings1 client · through 2026
Carl TuvinCovered position: Senor Advisor Government Affairs37 filings1 client · through 2017
Kristofer Shawn GoldsmithCovered position: Associate Director for Policy and Government Affairs27 filings1 client · through 2020
John StovallCovered position: Deputy Director for Policy and Government Affairs14 filings1 client · through 2026
James Mccormick10 filings1 client · through 2026
Logan LecatesCovered position: Healthcare Regulatory/legislative Research Analyst8 filings1 client · through 2025
Harold HansonCovered position: Veterans' Healthcare Specialist8 filings1 client · through 2025
Jack McmanusCovered position: National President7 filings1 client · through 2023
Michael Fimmano5 filings1 client · through 2026
Cathleen Wiblemo5 filings1 client · through 2019
Joe WynnCovered position: Senior Advisor Government Affairs5 filings1 client · through 2009
Elaina Howell4 filings1 client · through 2025
Bethany KeriansCovered position: Associate Director for Policy and Government Affairs4 filings1 client · through 2017
Elaina Marie Howell2 filings1 client · through 2026
Bethany KeiransCovered position: Associate Director for Policy and Government Affairs2 filings1 client · through 2017
Gregory JacobsCovered position: Assistant Director for Policy and Government Affairs1 filing1 client · through 2015
Covered positions · 16 of 21 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.
