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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
25 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3266115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20187 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20195 filingsthrough 2018
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: aptim-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.
12 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$1.1M 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.
115th Congress
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018
5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2975115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20192 filingsthrough 2018
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.
7 filingsthrough 2019
Martin DelgadoS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Director, House Ag Approps; Professional Staff, MilCon/VA Approps, APHIS Budget Analysis7 filingsthrough 2019
Thomas MichelsBluewater StrategiesCovered position: Principal6 filingsthrough 2018
Stephen MarloAptim Corp.6 filingsthrough 2018
Jason MatthewsBluewater StrategiesCovered position: Principal3 filingsthrough 2019
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
