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.
Aerospace
AER
57 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
34 filings
$3.2M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2023
Brian D SmithCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Rep. Gen. Csl., HASC (2009-10); Dep. Ass't Sec.,, Defense (2008-9); Csl., HASC (2005-8)39 filingsthrough 2021
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rules Cmte., Staff Director (2009-10) ; ; House Rules Cmte., Deputy Staff Director (2007-08) ; ; House Select Committee on Voting Irregularities, General37 filingsthrough 2022
John VeroneauCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Deputy U.S. Trade Representative ; ; Gen. Counsel & Assistant USTR for Congressional Affairs ; ; Ass't Secretary & DAS, Legislative Affairs, Dept. of Defense ; ; Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Susan Collins ; ; Legislative Director, U.S. Senator William Frist ; ; Leg. Ass't, Leg. Counsel, Leg. Dir., Sen. William Cohen33 filingsthrough 2019
The filings
The 20 most recent of 58 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: bombardier-aerospace-holdings-usa-inc-former-client-bombardier-transit-corp.
spend on filings that named this issue
119th Congress
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 4784119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20221 filingthrough 2021
S. 1605117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20221 filingthrough 2021
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.
Roger ZakheimCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Gen. Csl. & Dep. Staff Dir., HASC (2011-13);17 filingsthrough 2018
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Office of Legislative Affairs, Special Assistant to the President; Office of Senator Michael F. Bennet, Legislative Director House Committee on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Office of Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Legislative Director, Office of Senator Maria Cantwell, Legislative Counsel; Office of Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Legal Counsel15 filingsthrough 2023
Stephanie BarnaCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Manpower and Reserve Affairs14 filingsthrough 2026
Michele PearceCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Lead, Subcmte on Readiness, House Armed Services Committee; Senior Defense Advisor, U.S. Senator Susan Collins; Deputy General Counsel, Legislation, Department of Defense; Acting General Counsel and Principal Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Army12 filingsthrough 2024
Zachary MearsCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense; Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council11 filingsthrough 2021
Samantha ClarkCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Senate Armed Services Committee (Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel; Deputy General Counsel; Counsel)9 filingsthrough 2021
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Press Secretary, Communications Director & Chief of Staff, Congressman Joseph Pitts5 filingsthrough 2024
Jack SchenendorfCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure3 filingsthrough 2020
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Asst. to President Bush & Dep. Dir. OPL ; ; Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker3 filingsthrough 2020
Ed McclellanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance2 filingsthrough 2018
Holly FechnerCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Policy Director, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy;, Chief Labor & Pensions Counsel, Senate HELP, Committee2 filingsthrough 2013
Elizabeth LetchworthCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Secretary for the Minority, US Senate (2001);, Secretary for the Majority, US Senate (95-01);, Floor Assistant, Secretary for Majority (86-94).2 filingsthrough 2012
Gary HeimbergCovington & Burling LLP1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 15 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
