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.
Defense
DEF
20 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
17 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 5618119th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Donald LefeveRobotic Research Opco, LLC (DBA Forterra)12 filingsthrough 2025
Stephen RubrightRobotic Research Opco, LLC (DBA Forterra)Covered position: Military Legislative Assistant, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison R-TX; Military Legislative Assistant, Rep Jeff Miller R-FL15 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah FlaimRobotic Research Opco, LLC (DBA Forterra)Covered position: Communications Director & Sr Advisor,House Budget Committee, Communications Director, House CMTE on Appropriations; Comms Director, House Committee on Financial Services; Comms Director, Press Sec, Regional Rep, Distr Scheduler, Rep Jeb Hensarling5 filingsthrough 2026
Sean JoyceAtlas Crossing LLC
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: robotic-research-opco-llc-dba-forterra.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
17 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$885K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$100K 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.
S. 1462119th CongressFix Our Forests Act2 filingsthrough 2026
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: Chief of Staff, Congressman Patrick McHenry; Legislative Director, Congressman Shuster; Communications Director, Congressman Shuster; Military Legislative Advisor, Congressman Shuster; Senior Legislative Advisor, Congressman Shuster
Christopher W EddowesAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Congressman Lloyd Smucker3 filingsthrough 2026
Alex BoltonAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis3 filingsthrough 2026
Robert ParmiterAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel/Senior Counsel/Counsel, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, & Homeland Security; Staff Asst., House Judiciary Committee3 filingsthrough 2026
Adam GoodwinGoodwin Strategies, LLCCovered position: Sen. Patty Murray, Legislative Assistant (2013-2017); Legislative Aide (2010-2013); Staff Assistant (2007-2010)3 filingsthrough 2026
Bobby CornettAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Head of Legislative Affairs, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Department of Defense; Deputy Chief of Staff, Congressman Trent Franks2 filingsthrough 2026
Lee Channing FosterRobotic Research Opco, LLC (DBA Forterra)2 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 9 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
