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
113 filings
$4.9M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
Virginia Johnson BurnleyUnited Service OrganizationsCovered position: U.S. House of Representatives: Counsel and Counsel to the Chairman, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct; Counsel, Committee on Natural Resources; Counsel, Committee on Armed Services; Chief of Staff, Rep. Dan Benishek.; U.S. Department of Defense: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for House Legislative Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
U.S. Department of the Interior: Acting Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 120 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: united-service-organizations.
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.
115th Congress
Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019
1 filingthrough 2018
S. 3159115th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
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.
32 filingsthrough 2025
Clinton C. CowanUnited Service OrganizationsCovered position: Intern: Sen. Martin Heinrich; Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide, Legislative Assistant: Sen. Tom Udall18 filingsthrough 2026
John LundyCr FederalCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Larry Combest; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Espy16 filingsthrough 2026
Susan ButlerCr FederalCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Chip Pickering; Legislative Assistant, US Senate Majority Leader; Staff Liaison to Senate Budget and Finance Committees/LA to Senator Trent Lott16 filingsthrough 2026
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative Hefley, Legislative Aide; U.S. Representative Watkins, Legislative Director15 filingsthrough 2018
Katie ToskeyUnited Service OrganizationsCovered position: Scheduler, Office of Rep. Dan Benishek; Scheduler and Legislative Correspondent, Office of Rep. Jackie Walorski.13 filingsthrough 2021
Craig H MetzNelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough11 filingsthrough 2021
Becky B WeberPrime Policy Group6 filingsthrough 2022
Ann A. AdlerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: Sen Robert Byrd: CoS (2000-04); House Natural Resources Cmte: Sr Policy Advisor (2004-07), Dep CoS (2007-11); House Transportation Cmte: Dep CoS (2011-15); Interior Dept: Chief, Congressional/Legislative Affairs (2015-17); Rep Sean Casten: CoS (2019)5 filingsthrough 2022
Patrick ThompsonCr FederalCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee; National Security Advisor, Senator Roger Wicker (MS); Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01)3 filingsthrough 2026
Raphael JohnsonUnited Service Organizations2 filingsthrough 2026
Dan BrownPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2019: Legislative Correspondent Rep. William Timmons (SC-04)2 filingsthrough 2022
Aquila PowellPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1996-1999: Legislative Aide, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI); 1994-1995: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Bryant (D-TX); 1999-2001: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation2 filingsthrough 2022
Stefan BaileyPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2003-2004: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09); 2004-2005: Press Secretary/Legislative Director, Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09); 2005-2007: Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Rahall (WV-03)1 filingthrough 2022
Martin PaonePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1995-2001: Secretary for the Minority, Senate; 2001-2002: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2002-2007: Secretary, Minority, Senate; 2007-2008: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2015-2017: Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, White House1 filingthrough 2022
Casie Elizabeth DaughertyPrime Policy Group1 filingthrough 2022
