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: northrop-grumman.
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.
28 filings
$1.1M 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
American Innovation and Jobs Act
5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 866118th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act4 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2673118th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 3938118th CongressBuild It in America Act3 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4660113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4870113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5326112th CongressDepartment of Justice Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2647111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1390111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 880114th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
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.
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel.14 filingsthrough 2023
Zachary MearsCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense; Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council14 filingsthrough 2021
Roger ZakheimCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Gen Coun/Dep Staff Dir, House Armed Services14 filingsthrough 2018
Jeff ShockeyS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Director, House Approps Comm13 filingsthrough 2014
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rules Committee, Staff Director; House Rules Committee, Deputy Staff Director; House Select Committee on Voting Registration Irregularities, General Counsel, detailed (9/2007-9/2008)12 filingsthrough 2022
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Representative Joe Pitts, Chief of Staff, Communications Director, and Special Assistant10 filingsthrough 2023
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush (2008-2009); Sr. Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Frist (2003-2005); Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts (1997-2002); Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker (1994 -1997)5 filingsthrough 2017
Richard HertlingCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Dir. & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Acting Asst. AG, Office of Leg. Affairs, DoJ; Dep. Asst. AG, Office of Legal Policy, DoJ; Dep. CoS & Leg. Dir., Senator Lamar Alexander; Min. Staff Dir., Sen. Gov. Affairs Committee5 filingsthrough 2017
Martin DelgadoS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Dir, House Ag Approps, Prof Staff, Milcon/VA approps5 filingsthrough 2016
James RyanAvoq, LLC5 filingsthrough 2011
Stacey AlexanderAvoq, LLC5 filingsthrough 2011
Nicholas XenakisCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senior Counsel, General Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee4 filingsthrough 2023
Gregory NickersonThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Mean; Staff Director Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Committee4 filingsthrough 2015
Jan FowlerThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Voinovich Legislative Assistant, Leg. Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Intern for Rep. McCrery4 filingsthrough 2015
Clay WhiteSkyline Capitol LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Leg Director - Congressman Chris Stewart; Leg Director, Leg Asst - Congressman Jason Chaffetz3 filingsthrough 2026
Liam AndersonSkyline Capitol LLCCovered position: Comm Director, Rep Mike Garcia; Comm Director Rep Chris Stewart; Staff, Rep Mike Gallagher; Staff, HHS Sec Alex Azar3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 24 of 36 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
