105 filings from 8 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jun 29, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$5M
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.
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: bae-systems.
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.
24 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$215K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$80K 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.
113th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20174 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3644111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20092 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6052110th CongressSaving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6899110th CongressComprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7110110th CongressJob Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3380110th CongressSaving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Covered position:
10 filingsthrough 2013
PAUL A WEAVER jrPaw and AssociatesCovered position: N/A8 filingsthrough 2012
David Obrien MartinMartin, Fisher, Thompson & Associates8 filingsthrough 2010
J Paris FisherMartin, Fisher, Thompson & Associates8 filingsthrough 2010
Steven A ThompsonMartin, Fisher, Thompson & Associates8 filingsthrough 2010
Robert P TaylorPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Office of Sec'y of Defense, Internat'l Affairs6 filingsthrough 2011
David MarinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Press Secretary / Leg. Director, Rep. Tom Davis6 filingsthrough 2010
