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.
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: general-dynamics.
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.
TAX
63 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
58 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
42 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Education
EDU
39 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
37 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
32 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
27 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
17 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$440K 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.
113th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014
26 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201822 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201719 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 202418 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 202218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 202617 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 202517 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201817 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201417 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5136111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.17 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1735114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201615 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 201615 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 201715 filingsthrough 2016
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.
71 filingsthrough 2026
Michael HersonAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Spec Asst to the Asst Sec of Def for Force Mgmt & Personnel66 filingsthrough 2026
Menda FifeFifestrategies, LLCCovered position: LC and Mailroom Supervisor -- Senator Harkin65 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph BartonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Boehner)56 filingsthrough 2026
Rebecca AndersonAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: White House Office of Legislative Affairs50 filingsthrough 2026
Michael BeerAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: LA, Rep. Dave Hobson50 filingsthrough 2026
Bert CarpAlignment Government Strategies50 filingsthrough 2026
Leo C JardotAlignment Government Strategies50 filingsthrough 2026
Jenny DijamesAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: LA and LD, Rep. Bud Cramer50 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle NevinsHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader 11-13; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor 09-10; Floor Director, Rep. Roy Blunt 07-08; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt 03-06.48 filingsthrough 2026
Steve StombresHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief DeputyMajorityWhip04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-03.48 filingsthrough 2026
Manny RossmanHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip 07-09; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Sen. Trent Lott 05-06; Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Crane 03-04; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Phil Crane 01-02.48 filingsthrough 2026
Gary Michael HallPrasam47 filingsthrough 2020
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff; House Approps (Lewis, Young, Livingston)46 filingsthrough 2020
Carl KimeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC45 filingsthrough 2026
James T TurnerTurner Pollard Strategies, LLC45 filingsthrough 2020
JOHN J POLLARD iiiTurner Pollard Strategies, LLC42 filingsthrough 2020
Archibald Galloway IiPrasam40 filingsthrough 2020
Todd HarmerAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Sen Chambliss39 filingsthrough 2024
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)39 filingsthrough 2018
