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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$440K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
7 filings
$390K 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.
John Abney CulbersonFederal Science Partners LLCCovered position: Member of Congress, House of Representatives19 filingsthrough 2026
Meg ThompsonFederal Science Partners LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate and House Appropriations Committees18 filingsthrough 2026
Christen Nelson KapavikCoalition for Deep Space ExplorationCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bill Posey, 2015-2021; Legislative Aide, Rep. Bill Posey, 2011-2015; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, 2007-200913 filingsthrough 2023
John MartensFederal Science Partners LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 37 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: coalition-for-deep-space-exploration.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
117th Congress
Strategic Competition Act of 2021
3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4664117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4346117th CongressCHIPS and Science Act2 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4814117th CongressORBITS Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 6119117th CongressFurther Extending Government Funding
Act1 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.
Covered position: Senior Advisor to the House Appropriations Committee Staff Director, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science Staff Director, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
12 filingsthrough 2026
Frank SlazerCoalition for Deep Space Exploration11 filingsthrough 2023
Leslie AlbrightFederal Science Partners LLCCovered position: Minority Clerk, House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, Professional Staff, House Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee10 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
