74 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 5, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$11.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$11.1M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$80K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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: american-physical-society.
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.
63 filings
$10.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
54 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
32 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$715K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
4 filings
$510K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$117K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 2090112th CongressEnergy Critical Elements Advancement Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 952112th CongressEnergy Critical Elements Renewal Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1113112th CongressCritical Minerals Policy Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2511111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2710111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1585110th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2641110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5929110th CongressNuclear Terrorism Deterrence and Detection Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 383112th CongressCritical Minerals and Materials Promotion Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Julie DavisAmerican Physical Society
17 filingsthrough 2026
Lin Allen HuAmerican Physical Society16 filingsthrough 2019
Colin T HayesLot Sixteen LLCCovered position: Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources; Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Craig Thomas3 filingsthrough 2024
DON ENGEL phdAmerican Physical Society3 filingsthrough 2008
Chelsea Marie BaltesLot Sixteen LLC2 filingsthrough 2025
Steve PiersonAmerican Physical Society1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
