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.
Defense
DEF
257 filings
$86.1M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
120 filings
$80.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 135 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 915111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 202411 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 822114th CongressTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require reporting of certain data by providers and suppliers of air ambulance services for purposes of reforming reimbursements for such services under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Ken CalvertR-California-AL
Bills: H.R. 1151, H.R. 1477, H.R. 3132 +4 more
325 filings
2 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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: textron-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
61 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
59 filings
$45M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
57 filings
$60.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
48 filings
$41.6M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
30 filings
$35.1M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
18 filings
$22.1M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
18 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
13 filings
$700K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$10.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
7 filings
$6.7M 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.
9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2881110th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20136 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20136 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 658112th CongressFAA Modernization and Reform Act of 20126 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 978111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6448118th CongressTo require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct a study to compare the effects of allowing certain aircraft certified under part 23 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, to operate under part 121 of such title, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20205 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20215 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Randall L WestRobison International, Inc.Covered position: DAS of Defense for Legislative Affairs32 filingsthrough 2018
Michael HersonAmerican Defense International30 filingsthrough 2026
Matt WeinsteinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Legislative Director to Rep Byrne, Sr LA to Rep Bonner, LA to Rep Rogers30 filingsthrough 2026
Todd HarmerAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Sen Chambliss29 filingsthrough 2025
Stewart HolmesTextron Inc.Covered position: (Does not lobby Senate)29 filingsthrough 2021
Michael BarberaAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Curt Weldon27 filingsthrough 2022
John ScofieldS-3 GroupCovered position: Dep Press Sec, US Sen Mark Hatfield; Press Sec, Rep. Frank LoBiondo; Comms Dir, House Approps23 filingsthrough 2026
Matt BravoS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Floor Operations for Maj. Whip Steve Scalise; Prof Staff, E&C; Floor Asst to Maj. Leader Eric Cantor23 filingsthrough 2026
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Pres. Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Asst. to Director for Legislative Affairs at the OMB23 filingsthrough 2022
Stephen RademakerPodesta Group, Inc.23 filingsthrough 2017
Olivia KurtzS-3 GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Leg Director, Dep Leg Director, Sr Leg Asst, US Sen Susan Collins; Dep Staff Dir, Sen Special Comm on Aging; Leg Director, Sr Leg Asst, Leg Asst, Exec Asst, Rep Mike Castle22 filingsthrough 2026
Manuel FernandezTextron Inc.22 filingsthrough 2014
Erskine W WellsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dep COS Sen. Wicker; COS Rep. Palazzo; Leg Asst Sen Wicker; Intern Sen. Cochran21 filingsthrough 2026
Kraig M SiracuseTextron Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, 1998 - 2006.21 filingsthrough 2023
HERBERT LEE DIXSON jrRobison International, Inc.Covered position: Comptroller, US Marine Corps20 filingsthrough 2016
Shannon Hutcherson HinesTextron Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, United States Senate Committee on Appropriations for Vice Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL)18 filingsthrough 2026
Dan GreenwoodBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Deputy Asst. to the President for Leg Affairs; Sr. Dir. for Leg. Affairs National Security Council; Dir. USMC Cong. Liaison (House); USMC Officer18 filingsthrough 2026
Walker RobertsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dep. COS, House Intl. Rel. Comm.; Sp. Asst. to Pres.; Policy Analyst, Senate18 filingsthrough 2025
Maya SeidenBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Intern, WH Counsels Office; Intern, Rep. Sam Gejdenson; Sp. Asst to Cab Sec., WH; Advisor to CoS, Energy Dept.; Sp Asst to Sec of Energy; Sen Advisor, Off of Dep. Sec of State; CoS Office of the Dep Sec of State for Management and Res.18 filingsthrough 2025
Fred TurnerBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS, Sen. Menendez; COS, US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; COS, Rep. Hastings, Associate Staff of House Rules Committee18 filingsthrough 2025
Jose CeballosS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Special Assistant to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Confidential Assistant, Office of the Secretary, Business Liaison, Dept of Commerce17 filingsthrough 2026
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter17 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 73 of 99 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
