16 filings from 3 registrants · 2012–2018 · latest filed Jan 15, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$230K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$230K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: lrad-corporation.
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.
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$20K 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.
115th Congress
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2017
2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3219115th CongressMake America Secure Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20192 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20192 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2987115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20192 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3109115th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20192 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3159115th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20192 filingsthrough 2018
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.
8 filingsthrough 2018
James GauthierThe Livingston Group, LLCCovered position: Frm. Staff, Sen. Gregg7 filingsthrough 2018
Michael KhatchadurianAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: HASC,RepRyun,RepCrenshaw,SchCappointeeDOD4 filingsthrough 2012
Paul MchalePaul MchaleCovered position: Asst. Sec. of Defense; Member of Congress3 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
