Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ats Communications (on Behalf of Blue Origin)
District of Columbia
15 filings from 1 registrant · 2018–2021 · latest filed Oct 5, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$280K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$280K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$280K on those filings
Defense
DEF
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2968 116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
- H.R. 3055 116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
- H.R. 5952
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Pete Kirkham Red Maple Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS. Rep. Tom Cole; LD Reps. Gerlach, Graves, Watkins, Bateman16 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 1 of 1 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
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: ats-communications-on-behalf-of-blue-origin.