57 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Feb 13, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$10K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.6M
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.
Kevin YoderVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Intern, Rep. Jerry Moran; Special Asst, Office of Counternarcotics, U.S. Dept of Defense21 filingsthrough 2025
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Zach Wamp; Legislative Director, Rep. Rick Hill; Legislative Aide, Rep. Barbara F. Vucanovich19 filingsthrough 2025
Rashid HallawayVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh19 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 57 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: spirit-aerosystems-inc.
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.
BUD
19 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$490K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
2 filings
$80K 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 Defense Appropriations Act, 2026
3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4394118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7864118th CongressTo amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to treat certain merchandise as unused merchandise for drawback purposes.3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2321118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2443118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8255117th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8256117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5342119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 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.
Hamilton BloomVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Minority Staff Director/Clerk, Majority Staff Director/Clerk, Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, & Related Agencies; Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Shelby
19 filingsthrough 2025
Todd HarmerAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Sen Chambliss14 filingsthrough 2024
Kevin JonesRiverside Strategic Solutions, LLC12 filingsthrough 2020
Michael HersonAmerican Defense International6 filingsthrough 2023
Charles CadenaSpirit Aerosystems, Inc.Covered position: Vice President of Corporate Affairs3 filingsthrough 2024
David NatonskiVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff: Rep. Greg Murphy, Rep. Denver Riggleman, Rep. Kevin Yoder, Rep. Trey Radel; Deputy Chief of Staff, Communications Director: Rep. Aaron Schock; Press Secretary, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent: Rep. Christopher Shays2 filingsthrough 2024
Catherine EdmonsonAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Henry Cuellar2 filingsthrough 2021
Josh MartinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep Mac Thornberry, Health Policy Director to Senator Richard Burr, Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff to Congressman Michael Burgess1 filingthrough 2022
Matt WeinsteinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Legislative Director to Rep Byrne, Sr LA to Rep Bonner, LA to Rep Rogers1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 10 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
