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
21 filings
$400K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$60K 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
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20184 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20184 filingsthrough 2017
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: polyverse-corporation.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
3 filingsthrough 2019
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
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2987115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3159115th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20222 filingsthrough 2021
S. 2792117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20222 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20212 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20202 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
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.
12 filingsthrough 2021
Moses MercadoOgrCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt6 filingsthrough 2021
Stanton BullockOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Daniel Moynihan6 filingsthrough 2021
Timothy McgivernOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Sam Brownback6 filingsthrough 2021
Todd NovasconeOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Jerry Moran; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jerry Moran6 filingsthrough 2021
Michael Dee BuchananOgrCovered position: COS,RepConf;COS/DCOS/LD,Hensarling;Dir,Gramm6 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 9 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
