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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$600K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$230K 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 — 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
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: pacific-defense-strategies-inc.
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
118th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024
3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 4921118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4663117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
S. 1071119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
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.
7 filingsthrough 2023
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall6 filingsthrough 2023
Mike WakefieldHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Intern, Sen. John Warner; LA, Leg. Counsel, Rep. Mike Coffman; Military LA, Counsel, Sr. Counsel, Sen. Susan Collins; Professional Staff, Sr. Counsel, Senate Appropriations Cmte., Defense Subcmte.5 filingsthrough 2026
James HickeyHolland & Knight LLP2 filingsthrough 2026
Paul StimersHolland & Knight LLP2 filingsthrough 2023
Dennis PotterHolland & Knight LLP2 filingsthrough 2023
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2022
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: US Congressman2 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2022
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper1 filingthrough 2023
Austin MccartyK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2023
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Tracy Lee LawlessK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 11 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
