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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
51 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
41 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20201 filingthrough 2019
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.
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: aar-corp.
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.
AVI
34 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
33 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Housing
HOU
22 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
20 filings
$726K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
8 filings
$560K 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.
Aar Corp.
29 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen AaronMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Senate Environment & Publics Works Committee (2004-2007)25 filingsthrough 2022
Thomas LynchIce Miller Strategies LLCCovered position: Subcommittee Staff Director, Senate EPW25 filingsthrough 2018
STEPHEN AARON jrPerspective StrategiesCovered position: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee18 filingsthrough 2026
MARTIN E EDWARDS iiiTaft Stettinius & Hollister LLP DBA Taft Advisors LLC Fka (Taft, Stettinius & Ho17 filingsthrough 2024
Graham Young HillTaft Stettinius & Hollister LLP DBA Taft Advisors LLC Fka (Taft, Stettinius & HoCovered position: Staff Director & Sr. Counsel, House Transportation & Infrastructure16 filingsthrough 2024
Graham HaileMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Mark Meadows 2015 - 2017; Senior Legislative Assistant, Mick Mulvaney 2013 - 201513 filingsthrough 2020
Rodney P EmeryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg Assistant,Rep JJackson,Jr. 1996-1998; Leg Counsel, Rep. Juanita Millender McDonald 1998; COS, Rep. Diane E. Watson 2001-2003; COS, Rep.Steven Horsford 2013; Assoc Admin of Congressional Affairs 2009-2012 & General Services Admin. 2010-20127 filingsthrough 2020
Brandt HershmanBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: District Director Rep. Steve Buyer.6 filingsthrough 2021
Greg LanklerMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: House Appropriations Committee (2001-2011) Legislative Director, Rep. Bill Young (1990-2001)6 filingsthrough 2019
Mark BradenMercury Public Affairs, LLC6 filingsthrough 2018
David M. SpoonerBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Asst. Secretary for Import Admin, US Commerce Dept; Chief Textile & Apparel Negotiator, US Trade Rep; Chief of Staff Rep. Sue Myrick; Prof Staff Member, House Comm on Rules; Comm Dir House Ag Comm; Legislative Counsel, Rep Wes Cooley.5 filingsthrough 2018
Robert T GrandBarnes & Thornburg, LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Sarah HeltonMichael Best Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2017
Thomas SchreibelMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2017
Toby MoffettMercury Public Affairs, LLC3 filingsthrough 2022
Melissa BoromAar Corp.3 filingsthrough 2021
Robert GanimBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant Sen Kelly Ayotte; Legislative Asst Sen Mark Kirk3 filingsthrough 2018
Marcus JadotteAar Corp.Covered position: Assistant Secy. for Industry & Analysis, ITA, Dept. of Commerce; Chief of Staff - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz; Chief of Staff, Special Assistant - Rep. Peter Deutsch; Special Assistant to Deputy Secy., Intergovernmental Officer - Dept. of Labor2 filingsthrough 2019
Joseph FordAar Corp.2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 18 of 31 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
