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.
Defense
DEF
41 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$90K 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 10493119th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2025
S. 5611119th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2025
S. 5618119th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2025
Brian GreerEmpire Consulting GroupCovered position: Prof. Staff-House Armed Services Comm.; Military Leg Asst.- Sen. Charles Schumer; Spec Asst.-Off. of Sec. of Defense; Military Leg Asst.- Rep. John Boccieri; Military Leg Asst.-Rep. Parker Griffith; Leg Asst., Staff Asst. & Leg Corr.-Rep. David Scott17 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas XenakisCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senior Counsel, General Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee16 filingsthrough 2026
Stephanie Barna
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: advanced-technology-international.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
117th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2022
4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4882118th CongressA bill to establish a pilot program for tracking awards made through other transaction authority.2 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4942118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 4784119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20241 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20221 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 7776117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
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.
Covington & Burling LLP
Covered position: General Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Manpower and Reserve Affairs
15 filingsthrough 2026
Michele PearceCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Lead, Subcmte on Readiness, House Armed Services Committee; Senior Defense Advisor, U.S. Senator Susan Collins; Deputy General Counsel, Legislation, Department of Defense; Acting General Counsel and Principal Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Army12 filingsthrough 2024
Andrew QuinnMcallister & Quinn, LLCCovered position: SA, LA - Rep. Hoyer6 filingsthrough 2022
Samantha ClarkCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Senate Armed Services Committee (Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel; Deputy General Counsel; Counsel)5 filingsthrough 2021
Zachary MearsCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense; Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council3 filingsthrough 2021
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Representative Joe Pitts, Chief of Staff, Communications Director, and Special Assistant2 filingsthrough 2026
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel2 filingsthrough 2023
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush; Sr. Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Frist; Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 11 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
