50 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2021 · latest filed Oct 20, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$3.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.1M
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.
Defense
DEF
47 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$310K 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 29 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3222110th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4986110th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20084 filingsthrough 2008
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: analytical-graphics-inc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20183 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20183 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1735114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1197113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20143 filingsthrough 2013
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.
11 filingsthrough 2014
Michael BarberaAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Curt Weldon9 filingsthrough 2011
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter9 filingsthrough 2011
Charles DentDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Member of Congress.3 filingsthrough 2020
John A MerriganDla Piper LLP (US)3 filingsthrough 2012
Alex PinsonDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Schedule C appointee, Dept. of Health and Human Services; Senior Legis. Asst. and Counsel (and other positions), Rep. Hal Rogers; Intern, Rep. Cory Gardner; Intern, Rep. Trey Gowdy)1 filingthrough 2021
Andrew KentDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Charles W. Dent; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom Marino; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Louie Gohmert1 filingthrough 2019
Lanier Swann HodgsonDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Staff to Sen. E. Dole and Rep. W. Jones1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 11 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
