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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Aerospace
AER
58 filings
$13.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
58 filings
$13.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20264 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
Michael MeermansSierra Nevada Company, LLCCovered position: House Intelligence Committee, Staff Director (2004-2007) ; ; House Intelligence Committee, Budget Director (1999-2004) ; ; Hse Intel. Comm, Staff Dir. Tech & Tact. Subcomm (1999-2004) ; ; House Intelligence Committee, Prof. Staff Member (1995-1999)35 filingsthrough 2019
Mary Colleen GaydosSierra Nevada Company, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator Mike DeWine; Staff Asst. and Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee; Professional Staff Member Defense Subcommittee, U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee28 filingsthrough 2026
Paul Hutton
The filings
The 20 most recent of 58 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: sierra-nevada-company-llc.
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.
38 filings
$9.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$960K 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.
119th Congress
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
3 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 5009119th CongressFine Arts Protection Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 9495119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 4784119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20131 filingthrough 2012
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.
Sierra Nevada Company, LLC
Covered position: LC Sen. John McCain; Research Assistant, Senate Armed Services Committee; Professional Staff Member, Senate Armed Services Committee; Military LA, Sen. John McCain; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Joe Manchin; Prof Staff, Senate Appropriations Committee
17 filingsthrough 2021
Brooke BarnardSierra Nevada Company, LLCCovered position: Professional staff, Defense Subcommittee, House Appropriations Committee15 filingsthrough 2025
Katherine MyersSierra Nevada Company, LLCCovered position: Office of Rep. Mike Simpson (Senior Legislative Assistant, Intern); Office of Sen. Mike Crapo (Office Manager, Staff Assistant, Intern)6 filingsthrough 2026
John RothSierra Nevada Company, LLC5 filingsthrough 2012
Josh LeachSierra Nevada Company, LLCCovered position: US Senate Staff Assistant - Sen. Roy Blunt Legislative Aide - Roy Blunt (Ret.) Military Legislative Assistant - Sen. John Boozman Senior Defense and Veterans Affairs Advisor - Sen. John Boozman US House: Military Legislative Asst Rep. Graves1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
