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.
Rich LeshnerVast, Inc. (Fka Vast Space LLC)10 filingsthrough 2026
Michael MineiroAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff Mmbr, House Science, Space and Tech. Comm. (Mar 15 - Aug 17); NASA Employee detailed to the WH Office of Science, Space, and Tech. (Aug 17 - Feb 18); Staff Dir., Space Subcomm. for House Science, Space and Tech. Comm. (Feb 18 - Oct 18)8 filingsthrough 2025
Galen RoehlAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: LC, Sen. Brownback, Apr. 04-Dec. 04; LA/Sen Jud. Comm, 05-08; Snr Pol Adsr, Sen Judiciary Comm, 08-10; LD, Rep. Connie Mack, Aug 10-Feb 11; Prof Staff Mmbr, Sen Pat Tommey/ Sen Commerce Comm, 2011-13; Plcy Anlst, Sen Republican Policy Comm, 2013-145 filingsthrough 2024
Jose Borjon
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: vast-inc-fka-vast-space-llc.
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
$400K 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.
118th Congress
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025
2 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4795118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9026119th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside, New York, as the "Detective Luis G. Alvarez Post Office".1 filingthrough 2025
S. 4795119th CongressFREEDOM 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.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Covered position: CoS, Rep V.Gonzalez, Jan 17- Feb 21; Snr Advsr/Dpty CoS, Rep F.Vela, Jun 14- Jan 17; Comm Drctr, Rep Gallego, Dec 13- Jan 15; Drctr Strtgy/Comm, Rep Reyes, Nov 11- Jan 13; Press Sec, Rep Cuellar, Jan 11- Nov 11; Comm Drctr, Rep Ortiz, Mar 09- Jan 11
4 filingsthrough 2025
William StamperAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg staff member, Sen. Hagerty (Jan 21 - Dec 23); Staff member, Sen. Alexander (May 19 - October 19)3 filingsthrough 2024
Taylor DalyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intern for Sen. Dick Durbin, May 2015-July 2015; Intern for Sen. Tom Carper, February 2016-May 20162 filingsthrough 2025
Caryn Dyson LesterAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Prof staff mbr to Sen Breaux, 2003-04; Intrn to Sen Mikulski, 1999.2 filingsthrough 2025
Ramzi Masri-ElyafaouiVast, Inc. (Fka Vast Space LLC)Covered position: Law Clerk, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senate Homelands Security and Government Affairs (2019); Regulatory Intern, OMB (2020); Law Clerk, Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, House of Representatives (2020)1 filingthrough 2026
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2024
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS (Dec 07 - Dec 11), Press Secy (Dec 04 - Dec 07), Dep Press Secy (Dec 02 - Dec 04) to Sen Inhofe1 filingthrough 2024
Sam OlswangerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg staff, Rep Webster, Jan 11-Jun 11; intrn, Rep Blackburn, Sep 08-Dec 081 filingthrough 2024
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-041 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 11 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
