34 filings from 6 registrants · 2008–2012 · latest filed Jan 18, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$800K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$635K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$165K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
11 filings
$630K on those filings
Defense
DEF
10 filings
$90K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1110th CongressImplementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 20071 filingthrough 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.
Gerry E SikorskiHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 1983-1993 Member, U.S. House of Representatives8 filingsthrough 2011
John BuscherHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 1/92-12/92 Staff Assistant, Senator Alan Dixon ; ; 1/93-1/96 Legislative Assistant, Senator Carol Mosely-Braun8 filingsthrough 2011
John B ConawayConaway Group LLC Lieutenant General, NGB
The filings
The 20 most recent of 34 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: sra-international-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.
5 filings
$480K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$90K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$110K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$45K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$15K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$10K 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.
Covered position:
8 filingsthrough 2010
David C WhitestoneHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 1992-1999 Legislative Staff, Rep. Frank R. Wolf6 filingsthrough 2010
Philip VermeerConaway Group LLC6 filingsthrough 2009
Tom TuckerConaway Group LLC6 filingsthrough 2009
Theodore H BornsteinFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: COS Rep. Aspin; COS Sen. Kohl; OSD-DOD4 filingsthrough 2012
Scott L KlugFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Member of Congress 1990-19984 filingsthrough 2012
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLP4 filingsthrough 2010
Kathryn Elizabeth ShorrFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Legislative staff Sen. Susan Collins2 filingsthrough 2012
Joel RobersonHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 5/05-8/05 Law Clerk, H. Judiciary Committee2 filingsthrough 2010
