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.
Homeland Security
HOM
33 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$560K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Mark WilliamsFerox StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Conaway // Chief of Staff, Rep. Todd Rokita // Dep. Chief of Staff/Leg. Director, Rep. Sam Johnson21 filingsthrough 2024
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: decision-sciences-international-corp.
5 filings
$380K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$50K 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.
116th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
3 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2987115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3109115th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3159115th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3931116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
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:
10 filingsthrough 2023
Michael TaggartFerox StrategiesCovered position: Energy and Commerce Committee --Policy Director; Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers -- Legislative Director; Rep. Leonard Lance-- Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director9 filingsthrough 2026
James Spenser FitzellaFerox StrategiesCovered position: Sen. Pro Staff Member, House Committee on Rules 19-22; Pro Staff Members, House Committee on Rules 18-19; Legislative Clerk, House Committee on Rules 17-18; Deputy Clerk, House Committee on Rule 16-17; Staff Asst. House Committee on Rules 15-16.3 filingsthrough 2023
Debra DixonFerox StrategiesCovered position: Chief of staff to Rep. Xavier Becerra, legislative director to Rep. Becerra, legislative counsel to Rep. Becerra, chief of staff, Office of Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Education, Immigration Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice2 filingsthrough 2026
Anthony Joseph IlardiFerox Strategies2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 7 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
