67 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2025 · latest filed Jan 19, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$3.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.3M
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.
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.
Defense
DEF
67 filings
$3.3M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 32 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 3000115th CongressPatient Advocacy Transparency Act5 filingsthrough 2017
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: coherent.
115th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
4 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20184 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3933116th CongressCHIPS for America Act3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2943114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5136111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 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.
16 filingsthrough 2016
MARTIN DUPONT srErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLC14 filingsthrough 2012
William AndahazyErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLC12 filingsthrough 2011
