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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
15 filings
$670K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$630K 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 — 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
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
Chad SchulkenVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Clerk/Staff Director/Professional Staff, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations; Professional Staff, Commerce, Justice, State & Judiciary Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations16 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer CaveVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Aide, Senator John Warner; Special Assistant, National Security Council; Special Assistant, Senate Armed Services Committee; Staff Assistant, Senator John Warner; and Intern, Senator John Warner16 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Anthony ShuppVan Scoyoc Associates16 filingsthrough 2026
Leslee Koch GilbertVan Scoyoc Associates
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: x-bow-launch-systems-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
118th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025
3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4921118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 8774119th CongressBulletproof Law Enforcement Vehicles Act1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 9495119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
S. 4784119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
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.
Covered position: Staff Director and Counsel, Committee on Science, Space & Technology; Republican Staff Director, Committee on Science & Technology; Legislative Director, Congressman Ralph M. Hall; Deputy Communications Director/Leg Asst, Congressman Ralph M. Hall
