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.
Aerospace
AER
11 filings
$450K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$250K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20266 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20266 filingsthrough 2026
James L ErvinErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A13 filingsthrough 2024
Joe KasperErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: US Dept. Homeland Security: Depty. Asst. Secy (2020), Office of the Secy of Defense: Special Asst (2017-2020); Rep. Duncan Hunter: Chief of Staff (2014-2017); LD/Communications Dir (2008-9); Communications Dir. (2004-2008); LA (2003-2004)13 filingsthrough 2024
William Thomas RiceWestmoreland160, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. David Price Military Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bud Cramer Legislative Director, Rep. Henry Bonilla Military Legislative Assistant/ Appropriations Associate, Rep. Bill Young8 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 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: electra-aero-inc.
fees reported
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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.
6 filings
$250K 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.
119th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20265 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5371119th CongressContinuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 20264 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7006119th CongressFinancial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20272 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 9495119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20272 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4784119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20272 filingsthrough 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.
Cheryl Nicole CotterellWestmoreland160, LLC
7 filingsthrough 2026
Colby MillerErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Defense & Foreign Policy Advisor, Sen Hutchinson (07-09); Military LA, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (05-07); Navy Congressional Liaison (03-05).7 filingsthrough 2022
John DonnellyErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Rep. Tom Graves: CoS (2015-21), Dpty CoS/Comm Dir. (2014-15), Comm Dir. (2012-14 and 2010-11). Sen. Scott Brown: Press Secy (2011-12). Rep. Dan Burton: Press Secy (2008-10); Special Asst. (2007-08)5 filingsthrough 2021
John BlountErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A3 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
