23 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jan 21, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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
22 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
5 filings
$360K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3222110th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 filingsthrough 2008
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: eads-north-america-dba-airbus-inc.
BUD
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$310K 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.
110th Congress
Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
S. 1197113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 658112th CongressFAA Modernization and Reform Act of 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1547110th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
24 filingsthrough 2014
Mark Warren IsakowitzFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Press Secretary for Congressman Gilmor24 filingsthrough 2014
Kirsten ChadwickFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs24 filingsthrough 2014
Danielle MaurerFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB13 filingsthrough 2014
William PiperFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell13 filingsthrough 2014
