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.
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-corp.
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.
69 filings
$192.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
69 filings
$192.5M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
63 filings
$179.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
52 filings
$145.8M on those filings
Education
EDU
47 filings
$135.5M on those filings
Intelligence
INT
46 filings
$132.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
35 filings
$95.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
32 filings
$94.1M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
29 filings
$85.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
25 filings
$75.4M 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.
117th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20268 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20247 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1304117th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 749117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3038114th CongressHighway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20236 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Christopher K. BradishCt Group Fka Ctf Global LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Office of Sen. Arlen Specter62 filingsthrough 2026
Adam PaulsonGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Director, Government Relations61 filingsthrough 2026
Teresa GainesGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Director, Government Relations61 filingsthrough 2024
Mark M WaclawskiGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Director, Government Relations58 filingsthrough 2022
Robert W. HelmGeneral Dynamics Corp57 filingsthrough 2026
David M MorrissGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Director, Government Relations51 filingsthrough 2023
Elizabeth SchmidGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Vice President, Government Relations48 filingsthrough 2026
Gerard Francis LambGeneral Dynamics Corp47 filingsthrough 2019
Erica Ann StriebelGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Director, Government Relations40 filingsthrough 2026
David GilliesGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Director, Government Relations28 filingsthrough 2026
Edward ShawGeneral Dynamics Corp27 filingsthrough 2015
Thomas Robert MadsonGeneral Dynamics Corp26 filingsthrough 2018
William GardepeGeneral Dynamics Corp26 filingsthrough 2014
Brian PottsGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Appropriations Committee, Military Construction Subcommittee23 filingsthrough 2026
Theodore Walter HackGeneral Dynamics Corp23 filingsthrough 2014
Shana ChandlerGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: 2007-2022 - Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Smith 2005-2007 - Legislative Director/Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Smith 2001 - 2005 - Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Adam Smith17 filingsthrough 2026
Randall L WestRobison International, Inc.Covered position: DAS of Defense for Legislative Affairs14 filingsthrough 2013
HERBERT LEE DIXSON jrRobison International, Inc.Covered position: Comptroller, US Marine Corps13 filingsthrough 2013
James P GallagherThe Gallagher Group, LLC12 filingsthrough 2012
Rachael MarxCt Group Fka Ctf Global LLCCovered position: Office of Sen. Martin Heinrich10 filingsthrough 2021
Patrick McguiganGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Senator John Boozman, Defense and Veterans Affairs Advisor Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Professional Staff Member9 filingsthrough 2026
Karen De Los SantosGeneral Dynamics CorpCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Management and Budget; Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Filemon Vela; Legislative Director, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Adam Smith6 filingsthrough 2026
