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.
Aerospace
AER
13 filings
$310K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 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. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Daris D MeeksMeeks, Butera & Israel PLLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Domestic Policy for the Vice President13 filingsthrough 2023
Jared StoutMeeks, Butera & Israel PLLCCovered position: Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff, National Space Council10 filingsthrough 2022
Thomas SpanglerVelos7 filingsthrough 2019
Jeffrey Neal RowlisonVelos5 filingsthrough 2019
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: virgin-orbit.
fees reported
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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.
Joel GrahamMeeks, Butera & Israel PLLCCovered position: Senior Attorney, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
4 filingsthrough 2023
Daris MeeksVenable LLPCovered position: ​​​House Republican Conference, Policy Director, Policy Analyst, Counsel; Representative Hensarling, Legislative Counsel; Federal Housing Finance Board, Counsel to Chairman; Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Counsel; ​Director of Domestic Policy, Office of the Vice President; Deputy Assistant to the President4 filingsthrough 2020
Jared StoutVenable LLPCovered position: ​Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff, National Space Council, The White House; Professional Staff Member, House Comm. on Science, Space, and Technology, Space Subcommittee; Legislative Assistant, House of Representatives, Rep. Sandy Adams4 filingsthrough 2020
Ryan IsraelMeeks, Butera & Israel PLLC3 filingsthrough 2021
James ButeraMeeks, Butera & Israel PLLC3 filingsthrough 2021
Anne KierigVenable LLPCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate, Sen. Richard J. Durbin; Legislative Assistant and Director of Correspondence, Sen. Richard J. Durbin; Legislative Assistant/Director of Special Projects, Sen. Dianne Feinstein2 filingsthrough 2020
Michael TierneyVelos2 filingsthrough 2018
Katie WallMeeks, Butera & Israel PLLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, National Space Council1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 7 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
