Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Specialty Materials, Inc
Massachusetts
63 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 16, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$760K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$760K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
56 filings
$760K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2638 110th CongressConsolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
- H.R. 5658 110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20092 filingsthrough 2008
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.
- William Mccann Strategic Marketing InnovationsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. Marty Meehan58 filingsthrough 2025
- Karlee Popken Strategic Marketing InnovationsCovered position: Sen. Bill Nelson, Legislative Correspondent Sen. Ed Markey, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide, Legislative Assistant11 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 2 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 63 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: specialty-materials-inc.