11 filings from 3 registrants · 2010–2012 · latest filed Oct 18, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$930K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$100K
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
11 filings
$1M on those filings
Intelligence
INT
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
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.
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: drs-defense-solutions-llc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
2 filings
$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.
Ice Miller Strategies LLC
Covered position: Dep. Staff Dir. & Gen. Counsel, Senate Appropri.
3 filingsthrough 2011
Nicole ElamIce Miller Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2011
John Andrew MuellerIce Miller Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2011
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates2 filingsthrough 2012
Larry BrewerDrs Defense Solutions, LLCCovered position: n/a2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 4 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
