Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Vertical Flight Society
Virginia
53 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$990K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$990K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
53 filings
$990K on those filings
Defense
DEF
53 filings
$990K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- S. 1644 110th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20081 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Michael Barbera Acg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Curt Weldon55 filingsthrough 2026
- Preeti Turpuseema Acg Advocacy6 filingsthrough 2024
- Eriade Williams Acg AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director/Senior Policy Advisory/Legislative Counsel - Rep. Robert A Brady; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretrary - Rep. Albert Wynn6 filingsthrough 2020
- Jamie Panarites Acg Advocacy4 filingsthrough 2026
2 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 53 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: the-vertical-flight-society.