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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
60 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 151 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Charles J. "Chuck" FleischmannR-Tennessee-AL
Bills: H.R. 4394, H.R. 4553, H.R. 8997 +1 more
113 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Michael LedfordLewis-Burke Associates, LLC73 filingsthrough 2026
Leland CoglianiLewis-Burke Associates, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff of the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee; Senior Analyst at the Government Accountability Office49 filingsthrough 2026
April L BurkeLewis-Burke Associates, LLC43 filingsthrough 2019
Carole McguireLewis-Burke Associates, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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: fermiforward-discovery-group-llc.
10 filings
$440K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$40K 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.
114th Congress
America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015
5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4496119th CongressRestore and Modernize Our National Laboratories Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
S. 579119th CongressDepartment of Energy Quantum Leadership Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4394118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20204 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20204 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4186113th CongressFIRST Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2325119th CongressRestore and Modernize Our National Laboratories Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8997118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2443118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Susannah HowiesonLewis-Burke Associates, LLCCovered position: Nuclear Security Fellow in Office of Congressman Bill Foster - 1 year - 2019 (paid by GWU)4 filingsthrough 2025
Benjamin PreisLewis-Burke Associates, LLC4 filingsthrough 2017
William RuchLewis-Burke Associates, LLC4 filingsthrough 2014
Virginia L NealeLewis-Burke Associates, LLCCovered position: Leg. Corr./Staff Asst., Office of Robert Wexler4 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 10 of 39 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
