27 filings from 3 registrants · 2020–2025 · latest filed Oct 20, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$710K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$710K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
25 filings
$690K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
9 filings
$220K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4636118th CongressWireless Electric Vehicle Charging Grant Program Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2024
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 International18 filingsthrough 2025
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: cobham-advanced-electronic-solutions-inc.
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.
1 filing
$20K 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.
Matt WeinsteinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Legislative Director to Rep Byrne, Sr LA to Rep Bonner, LA to Rep Rogers2 filingsthrough 2021
Josh MartinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep Mac Thornberry, Health Policy Director to Senator Richard Burr, Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff to Congressman Michael Burgess2 filingsthrough 2021
Alan P LarsonCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Under Secretary of State for Economic Business & Agricultural Affairs (1999-2005); Assistant Secretary of State for Economic & Business Affairs (1996-1999); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Finance & Development (1993-1996)2 filingsthrough 2020
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 Council2 filingsthrough 2020
Todd HarmerAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Sen Chambliss1 filingthrough 2021
Catherine EdmonsonAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Henry Cuellar1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 8 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
