Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 21 clients
456 filings
$15.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 14 clients
334 filings
$11.5M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Meg ThompsonCovered position: Professional Staff, House Appropriations 2001-2008532 filings22 clients · through 2026
Joel WidderCovered position: Detailee, Senate Appropriations Committee359 filings15 clients · through 2022
John MartensCovered position: Prof Staff: House Approps Subcmmte on CJS ('02-'07); Maj. & Min Clerks & Staff Dir, House Approps Subcmte on Fin. Srvcs & Gen. Govt & House Approps Subcmmte on CJS ('07-'22); Sr. Advsr Full Approps Comte & Interim Interior Subcommittee Clerk ('23).99 filings10 clients · through 2026
Allison Whitney HaysCovered position: N/A
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Highlander Aviation Ltd.
Israel
3 filings
through 2025
Gadfin Ltd.
Israel
1 filing
through 2025
Risolve A.I. Ltd.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 472 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
The Zoological Society of San Diego DBA San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
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: federal-science-partners-llc.
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 $15.8M in fees and $0 in expenses.
MAR · 6 clients
151 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Education
EDU · 4 clients
110 filings
$3M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 4 clients
99 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 5 clients
86 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 4 clients
70 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 3 clients
65 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 2 clients
50 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 2 clients
36 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD · 1 client
33 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 2 clients
21 filings
$784K 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.
94 filings
7 clients · through 2026
Leslie AlbrightCovered position: Professional Staff Member House Appropriations Committee74 filings8 clients · through 2024
John Abney CulbersonCovered position: Member of Congress 2001-201973 filings5 clients · through 2026
Mark MarinCovered position: Staff Director, House Science, Space & Technology Committee33 filings9 clients · through 2020
RAYMOND BYE jr4 filings1 client · through 2014
Lesley Young2 filings1 client · through 2026
Philip Jackson Bye1 filing1 client · through 2014
Covered positions · 7 of 10 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.
Israel
1 filing
through 2025
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.
