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.
Josh MartinVarda Space Industries, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Mac Thornberry (2009-2019); Health Policy Director, Senator Richard Burr (2009); Deputy Chief of Staff & Legislative Director, Congressman Michael Burgess (2003-2009)15 filingsthrough 2026
Michael HersonAmerican Defense International12 filingsthrough 2026
Todd HarmerAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Sen Chambliss8 filingsthrough 2026
Neil MckiernanAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Joe Courtney, Legislative Assistant to John Larson, Staff Assistant to Linda Sanchez
The filings
The 20 most recent of 31 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: varda-space-industries-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
$700K 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.
119th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026
3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8958118th CongressNASA Reauthorization Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20272 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 9495119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20272 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 6131119th CongressIncreasing Access to Mental Health in Schools Act1 filingthrough 2025
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.
8 filingsthrough 2026
Jessica SteffensAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Foreign Affairs Committee6 filingsthrough 2026
Josh MartinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep Mac Thornberry, Health Policy Director to Senator Richard Burr, Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff to Congressman Michael Burgess6 filingsthrough 2023
James ThomasVarda Space Industries, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
