Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF · 28 clients
769 filings
$20.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 15 clients
188 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Intelligence
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Jonathan EthertonCovered position: Senate Armed Services Committee-Professional Staff Member623 filings24 clients · through 2020
Moshe M SchwartzCovered position: Analyst, Congressional Research Service253 filings15 clients · through 2026
Eric Hannis9 filings4 clients · through 2012
Covered positions · 2 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Accenture PLC
Ireland
18 filings
through 2014
Bae Systems, PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2015
Singapore Technologies Engineering
The filings
The 20 most recent of 775 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: etherton-and-associates-inc.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $20.5M in fees and $0 in expenses.
INT · 10 clients
140 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 3 clients
16 filings
$340K on those filings
Veterans
VET · 5 clients
10 filings
$310K on those filings
Aerospace
AER · 1 client
5 filings
$230K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 3 clients
3 filings
$100K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 2 clients
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 1 client
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
1 filing
$20K 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 money 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.
Singapore
1 filing
through 2010
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
