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
22 filings
$400K 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20247 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20247 filingsthrough 2024
Andrew Hillerich TablerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs17 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall11 filingsthrough 2024
Brody Ryan GarlandK&L Gates, LLP8 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 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: defense-maritime-solutions-inc-f-k-a-wartsila-defense-inc.
118th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20265 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4543117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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
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.
Doug HallK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2021
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2022
Ryan CarneyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom MacArthur; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bryan Steil; Staff Director, House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth; Senior Advisor, Committee on House Administration1 filingthrough 2024
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2021
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Trent Lott1 filingthrough 2021
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 6 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
