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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
24 filings
$2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$110K 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 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20245 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20244 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffrey NadanerPoplicus Incorporated D/B/A GoviniCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations and Partnership Strategy.14 filingsthrough 2026
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP11 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall6 filingsthrough 2023
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: poplicus-incorporated-d-b-a-govini.
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
113th Congress
Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013
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.
Andrew Hillerich TablerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs5 filingsthrough 2023
Robert Wayne JonesPoplicus Incorporated D/B/A GoviniCovered position: National Security Advisor Republican Policy Committee 2023-May 2025 National Security Advisor-Senator Rob Portman(R-OH) 2018-2022.4 filingsthrough 2026
Eugene ShestakovK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Dan Sullivan4 filingsthrough 2023
Doug HallK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2013
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: CoS, Rep Stockman; LD, Rep Wicker4 filingsthrough 2013
Russel ReadPoplicus Incorporated D/B/A GoviniCovered position: Department of Homeland Security/Transportation Security Administration; Legislative Affairs Manager, Air Programs2 filingsthrough 2026
Kathryn HewittPoplicus Incorporated D/B/A GoviniCovered position: Deputy Director Nuclear Forensics, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2023-25); Policy Analyst, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2023-23); Public Affairs, National Nuclear Security Administration (2020-22)2 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey NadanerHamilton American LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations and Partnership Strategy.2 filingsthrough 2023
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief, AD/CVD Regulation/Assoc Ch Cnsl, DoC, Office of General Counsel; Trade Counsel detailee from DoC to JEC; Dep Staff Dir, JEC; Sr Counsel, Sen Schumer; Sr Counsel/Acting Dep Staff Dir/Ch Counsel/Dem Ch Counsel, Sen Comm Rules & Admin2 filingsthrough 2022
