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: austal-usa.
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.
65 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
39 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$220K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$60K 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.
114th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016
8 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20226 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3219115th CongressMake America Secure Appropriations Act, 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20166 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20176 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20176 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20166 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2943114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20176 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20176 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20225 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20205 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20215 filingsthrough 2020
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.
35 filingsthrough 2021
GEORGE MATTHEW BERNIER iiiVan Scoyoc Associates34 filingsthrough 2021
Eugene T. O'BrienAustal USA29 filingsthrough 2020
Carl KimeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC27 filingsthrough 2021
John ScofieldS-3 GroupCovered position: Dep Press Sec, US Sen Mark Hatfield; Press Sec, Rep. Frank LoBiondo; Comms Dir, House Approps22 filingsthrough 2026
Martin DelgadoS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Dir, House Ag Approps, MilCon/VA Approps; Prof Staff, House Ag Approps, Senate Interior Approps; Budget Analysis, USDA APHIS22 filingsthrough 2026
Olivia KurtzS-3 GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Leg Director, Dep Leg Director, Sr Leg Asst, US Sen Susan Collins; Dep Staff Dir, Sen Special Comm on Aging; Leg Director, Sr Leg Asst, Leg Asst, Exec Asst, Rep Mike Castle22 filingsthrough 2026
Jose CeballosS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Special Assistant to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Confidential Assistant, Office of the Secretary, Business Liaison, Dept of Commerce22 filingsthrough 2026
Lawrence S RyderAustal USA20 filingsthrough 2025
Neely Marcus SilbeyInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC18 filingsthrough 2021
David Frederick KilianInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: House Appropriations Committee18 filingsthrough 2017
Matt BravoS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Floor Operations for Maj. Whip Steve Scalise; Prof Staff, E&C; Floor Asst to Maj. Leader Eric Cantor16 filingsthrough 2026
Graham HallVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Intern, Senator Jeff Sessions; Intern, Congressman Robert Aderholt15 filingsthrough 2023
Bobby Joseph BabcockVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant/LegAsst, Congressman Steve King; LegAide/LegCorresp/StaffAsst, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison14 filingsthrough 2017
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates14 filingsthrough 2012
Zackary LinickInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Henry Cuellar12 filingsthrough 2021
William TatumInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff, Sen. Jeff Sessions12 filingsthrough 2016
Brian MalatVan Scoyoc Associates10 filingsthrough 2020
Bryan BlomVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Intern, Congressman Frank J. Sensenbrenner10 filingsthrough 2010
Chanda BetourneyS-3 GroupCovered position: Dep. Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Senate Appropriations Cmt; Chief Counsel Civil Law and Oversight, Sen. Counsel, Sen. Judiciary Cmt; Leg Asst. and Projects Dir., Leg. Corresp., Senator Leahy9 filingsthrough 2026
Anne Margaret WakeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC9 filingsthrough 2019
Stacy LadwigInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Rep. Erik Paulsen9 filingsthrough 2015
Kali MatalonInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member / Staff Assistant, Senate Appropriations Committee8 filingsthrough 2017
Donald R BramerBramer Group LLC7 filingsthrough 2026
Gabriel SteckerBramer Group LLC6 filingsthrough 2026
Carlisle ClarkeVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Majority Clerk/Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Appropriations; Legislative Assistant, Senator Thad Cochran; Professional Staff/Assoc Prof Staff/Staff Asst/Leg Correspondent, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry6 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 26 of 47 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
