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
70 filings
$700K 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 34 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 3000115th CongressPatient Advocacy Transparency Act5 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20175 filingsthrough 2016
James L ErvinErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Chairman & CEO73 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel HillErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: President17 filingsthrough 2016
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)16 filingsthrough 2024
Lisa Marie CheneyErvin Graves Strategy Group, 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: lister-chain-forge.
115th Congress
Continuing Appropriations Amendments Act, 2018
4 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20184 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3266115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20184 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20184 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1609115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2943114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4435113th CongressHoward P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2410113th CongressCarl Levin National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
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.
MARTIN DUPONT srErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLC13 filingsthrough 2012
Mark BurnsErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2025
John LucioErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations (2017 - 2023)6 filingsthrough 2024
Jack EdwardsErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress5 filingsthrough 2008
William AndahazyErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2008
Julia TrentErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Chief Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs (Feb 2023 - May 2025)4 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel SauersErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2025
Ryan WhiteErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Legis. Dir., Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC)-2017; Legis. Dir., Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ)-2016; Sr. Legis. Asst., Rep. David Schweikert-2013-2016; Legis. Asst., Rep. David Schweikert-2012-2013; Legis. Corr., Rep. David Schweikert-2011-20121 filingthrough 2026
Thomas KaralusErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Economic Policy (1/2024 - 5/2024) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs (8/2025 - 10/2025)1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 13 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
