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
26 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$240K 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. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
Brett ThompsonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Jim Talent21 filingsthrough 2019
Richard HoarBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff Mbr, House Cmte on ED. & the workforce Deputy Chief of Staff & Leg. Dir., U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis.18 filingsthrough 2020
Matthew BormetBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Rick Larsen; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ron Wyden14 filingsthrough 2020
Jesse AppletonBanner Public Affairs, LLC Leg. Ass't, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisory, US Treasury
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 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: perspecta-formerly-known-as-dxc-technologies.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
1 filingthrough 2020
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.
Covered position:
11 filingsthrough 2015
Sarah Wisner BlackwoodBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Rep. Costello; Prof. Staff, House Transp. & Infr. Cmte5 filingsthrough 2015
Kevin GundersenBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Subcmtee on Counterterrorism & Intel.3 filingsthrough 2014
Luke StrimerBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure, Staff Assistant, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
