17 filings from 2 registrants · 2021–2023 · latest filed Nov 14, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$330K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$330K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$80K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
11 filings
$80K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2472117th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 82422 Cadiz Jewett Road in Cadiz, Ohio, as the "John Armor Bingham Post Office".6 filingsthrough 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.
Joe KasperErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: US Dept. Homeland Security: Depty. Asst. Secy (2020), Office of the Secy of Defense: Special Asst (2017-2020); Rep. Duncan Hunter: Chief of Staff (2014-2017); LD/Communications Dir (2008-9); Communications Dir. (2004-2008); LA (2003-2004)3 filingsthrough 2022
Amanda KasperErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor to the Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), July 7, 2019 - January 13, 2021.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-vapor-manufacturers.
fees reported
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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.
5 filings
$250K 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.
3 filingsthrough 2022
Ericka KingErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: - U.S. Senator Rand Paul & Senate HELP Committee, Legislative Counsel (September 2018-March 2022); US Senator Rand Paul, Legislative Aide (January 2018 - September 2018); US Senator Rand Paul, Legislative Correspondent (October 2017 - January 2018)3 filingsthrough 2022
Colby MillerErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Defense & Foreign Policy Advisor, Sen Hutchinson (07-09); Military LA, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (05-07); Navy Congressional Liaison (03-05).2 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
