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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Aerospace
AER
47 filings
$600K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5952115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
Daris MeeksVenable LLPCovered position: House Republican Conference, Policy Director, Policy Analyst, Counsel; Representative Hensarling, Legislative Counsel; Federal Housing Finance Board, Counsel to Chairman; Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Counsel; Director of Domestic Policy, Office of the Vice President; Deputy Assistant to the President13 filingsthrough 2020
Daris D MeeksMeeks, Butera & Israel PLLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Domestic Policy for the Vice President
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 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: nanoracks-llc.
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
$50K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$50K 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
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
1 filingthrough 2018
S. 3159115th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 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.
11 filingsthrough 2023
Paul GayStrategic Marketing Innovations11 filingsthrough 2019
Jared StoutMeeks, Butera & Israel PLLCCovered position: Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff, National Space Council9 filingsthrough 2022
Jared StoutVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Executive Secretary & Chief of Staff, National Space Council, The White House; Professional Staff Member, House Comm. on Science, Space, and Technology, Space Subcommittee; Legislative Assistant, House of Representatives, Rep. Sandy Adams8 filingsthrough 2020
Chan D LieuVenable LLPCovered position: Director of Government Affairs, Policy, and Strategic Planning, NHTSA8 filingsthrough 2019
Christopher ShankVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Chief Strategic Communications Director, Strategic Investments, National Aeronautics and Space Administration3 filingsthrough 2018
Joel GrahamMeeks, Butera & Israel PLLCCovered position: Senior Attorney, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation2 filingsthrough 2023
Leslee Koch GilbertVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Staff Director and Counsel, Committee on Science, Space & Technology; Republican Staff Director, Committee on Science & Technology; Legislative Director, Congressman Ralph M. Hall; Deputy Communications Director/LegAsst, Congressman Ralph M. Hall1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 8 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
