Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Thales USA
Virginia
75 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.8M
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
55 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
22 filings
$710K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 5972 112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
- S. 2322 112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
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.
- Mark Van De Water Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Senate Appropriations Committee72 filingsthrough 2026
- Steven M Hyjek Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz47 filingsthrough 2026
- Brian P Schaffner Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz5 filingsthrough 2018
- Jenny Thalheimer Rosenberg Jtr Strategies LLCCovered position: US DOT - Asst. Sec. for Aviation and Int'l Affairs (A) FAA - Asst. Administrator US Senate Commerce Committee - Dir. of Comms.4 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 75 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: thales-usa.