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: viasat-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.
COM
34 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
26 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
20 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
10 filings
$240K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Veterans
VET
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$100K 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.
119th Congress
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
8 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20248 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20208 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20208 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20188 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20198 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20198 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3159115th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20198 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20267 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20217 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20217 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20177 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Michael FriedbergHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Rail Subcmte., House Transp. & Infrastructure Cmte.; Professional Staff, House Appropriations Cmte.15 filingsthrough 2025
Mark PaolettaDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Chief Counsel, House Energy & Comm Oversight/Invest Subcmte ; ; Asst Counsel to the Pres; Dep Assoc Dir for Pres Personnel14 filingsthrough 2016
Liz AlbertineDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Chief of Staff (and other positions), Rep. DeLauro10 filingsthrough 2024
Sarah DonovanDla Piper LLP (US)9 filingsthrough 2017
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee9 filingsthrough 2013
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Senior Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Asst Counsel, House Transp. and Infrastructure Committee9 filingsthrough 2013
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Putnam ; ; Policy Director, House Republican Conference ; ; Staff Director, Republican Policy Committee ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Felix Grucci ; ; Legislative Coorespondent, Senator Jon Kyl ; ; Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack9 filingsthrough 2013
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLC7 filingsthrough 2013
John ScofieldS-3 GroupCovered position: Dep Press Sec, US Sen Mark Hatfield; Press Sec, Rep. Frank LoBiondo; Comms Dir, House Approps6 filingsthrough 2026
Roderick HallNelson Mullins Riley & ScarboroughCovered position: FAA Assistant Administrator for Government Affairs (2009-2015), Deputy Chief of Staff for Eddie Bernice Johnson (2006-2009)6 filingsthrough 2026
Kristi RemingtonS-3 GroupCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee6 filingsthrough 2026
Ashley DavisS-3 GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President6 filingsthrough 2026
Jim BridenstineThe Artemis Group, LLC (Oklahoma)Covered position: Member, United States House of Representatives; Administrator, NASA5 filingsthrough 2026
VINCENT SARUBBI jrDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director, Rep. Josh Gottheimer; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Sherrod Brown; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Donald Norcross; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Rob Andrews5 filingsthrough 2026
Mark PilandThe Artemis Group, LLC (Oklahoma)Covered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Ralph Norman; Chief of Staff/Leg. Director/Senior Leg. Asst./Leg. Correspondent - Rep. Jim Bridenstine; Intern - Rep. Raul Labrador5 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 49 of 65 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
