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.
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: space-exploration-technologies.
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.
73 filings
$31.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
37 filings
$23.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
19 filings
$450K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
13 filings
$9.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
6 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Intelligence
INT
6 filings
$110K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
5 filings
$180K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$1.5M 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.
118th Congress
Precision Agriculture Loan Program Act of 2023
7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1697118th CongressPromoting Precision Agriculture Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6131119th CongressIncreasing Access to Mental Health in Schools Act4 filingsthrough 2025
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.
Joseph PetrzelkaSpace Exploration TechnologiesCovered position: Staff Asst., Leg. Correspondent, Leg. Aide: Senator Tom Harkin; Leg. Analyst, Special Assistance: U.S. Department of Agriculture; Leg. Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein20 filingsthrough 2026
Lawrence H WilliamsSpace Exploration Technologies16 filingsthrough 2012
Michael BainSpace Exploration TechnologiesCovered position: Professional Staff Member, Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Senate Committee on Appropriations; Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations; Staff Assistant, Senate Committee on Appropriations7 filingsthrough 2018
