Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Second Front Systems
Virginia
36 filings from 2 registrants · 2016–2024 · latest filed Dec 21, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$430K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$430K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
29 filings
$430K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
23 filings
$320K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2968 116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Keith Pemrick Commonwealth Strategic Partners, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep Tim Holden27 filingsthrough 2024
- George Shawn Mcelwee Commonwealth Strategic Partners, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep Charlie Dent27 filingsthrough 2024
- Katie Hazlett Commonwealth Strategic Partners, LLCCovered position: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary; House Member Office: Rodney Frelinghuysen: Chief of Staff (2017-2019), Deputy CofS (2014-2017), LD (2011-2014), LA (2006-2011)15 filingsthrough 2024
- Brian Marshall Johnson
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 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: second-front-systems.