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
33 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
25 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 53 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1304117th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 794117th CongressTax Excessive CEO Pay Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
Don NicklesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator35 filingsthrough 2026
Jeff ChoudhryThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Director; U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Assistant / Staff Assistant; House Small Business Committee, Intern35 filingsthrough 2026
Donald KentThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Sen Ron Johnson, Chief of Staff; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Asst Sec; DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Deputy Asst Sec; U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Policy Adv; Office of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles Policy Adv.;U.S. Senator Don Nickles,Leg Asst35 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 33 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: l3-harris-technologies.
BUD
14 filings
$980K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$420K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
4 filings
$280K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
3 filings
$210K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
1 filing
$70K 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
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.
6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20245 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20254 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20254 filingsthrough 2024
S. 866118th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act4 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 3938118th CongressBuild It in America Act3 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4663118th CongressUnemployment Insurance Integrity and Accessibility Act3 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.
Rachel Jones Hensler
The Nickles Group, LLC
Covered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Tax Policy Dir.; Office of U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Correspondent
34 filingsthrough 2026
Lucas HollandThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Office of U.S. Senator Inhofe - Chief of Staff; Legislative Director; Legislative Assistant; Legislative Correspondent; Correspondence Coordinator15 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
