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
37 filings
$660K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
4 filings
$300K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2647111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Michael HersonAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Spec Asst to Asst Sec Def, Force Mgmt & Prsnl36 filingsthrough 2017
Todd HarmerAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Sen Chambliss17 filingsthrough 2018
Charles McdowellCheckmate Government Relations5 filingsthrough 2026
CHRISTOPHER LACIVITA jrCheckmate Government Relations5 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: beretta-usa-corp.
$300K
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.
TRD
4 filings
$300K 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.
Muhammad Usman Rahim
Checkmate Government Relations
Covered position: Special Asst. Office of the Executive Secretariat
4 filingsthrough 2026
George PhillipsAmerican Defense International4 filingsthrough 2008
Frederick VaughanCheckmate Government RelationsCovered position: Principal Deputy Asst. Secretary, Treasury Dept.; Deputy Asst. Secretary, Treasury Dept.; Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Cmte.; Associate Director, The White House; Confidential Asst., Office of Management & Budget; Writer, The White House3 filingsthrough 2025
Matt WeinsteinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Legislative Director to Rep Byrne, Sr LA to Rep Bonner, LA to Rep Rogers3 filingsthrough 2017
Jeff JaneyAmerican Defense International2 filingsthrough 2008
Michael KhatchadurianAmerican Defense International1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
