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.
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: vertical-aviation-international.
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.
HOM
10 filings
$580K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$220K on those filings
Veterans
VET
4 filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$170K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
2 filings
Advertising
ADV
2 filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$50K 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.
H.R. 3482117th CongressNational Center for the Advancement of Aviation Act of 20227 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1752117th CongressNational Center for the Advancement of Aviation Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2263117th CongressSustainable Skies Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 675116th CongressSafe Helicopters Now Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2930115th CongressDrone Innovation Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3150115th CongressHelicopter Fuel System Safety Act7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20246 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4645117th CongressCertainty for General Aviation Pilots Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
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.
John SheaAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant/ Press Assistant, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann; Legislative Assistant,Rep. Steven Fincher3 filingsthrough 2024
Lauren Elizabeth GingherVertical Aviation InternationalCovered position: Government Affairs Assistant, HAI2 filingsthrough 2011
Arthur Warren ScottAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Cornyn; Intern, Senator Cornyn; Intern, Senator Wicker1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
