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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
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: general-dynamics-corp.
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 $0 in fees and $192.5M in expenses.
DEF · 1 client
69 filings
$192.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
69 filings
$192.5M on those filings
Aerospace
AER · 1 client
63 filings
$179.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
52 filings
$145.8M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
47 filings
$135.5M on those filings
Intelligence
INT · 1 client
46 filings
$132.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
35 filings
$95.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
32 filings
$94.1M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
29 filings
$85.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
25 filings
$75.4M 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.
Mark M WaclawskiCovered position: Director, Government Relations
58 filings1 client · through 2022
Robert W. Helm57 filings1 client · through 2026
David M MorrissCovered position: Director, Government Relations51 filings1 client · through 2023
Elizabeth SchmidCovered position: Vice President, Government Relations48 filings1 client · through 2026
Gerard Francis Lamb47 filings1 client · through 2019
Erica Ann StriebelCovered position: Director, Government Relations40 filings1 client · through 2026
David GilliesCovered position: Director, Government Relations28 filings1 client · through 2026
Edward Shaw27 filings1 client · through 2015
Thomas Robert Madson26 filings1 client · through 2018
William Gardepe26 filings1 client · through 2014
Faye Virostek26 filings1 client · through 2014
Brian PottsCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Appropriations Committee, Military Construction Subcommittee23 filings1 client · through 2026
Theodore Walter Hack23 filings1 client · through 2014
Shana ChandlerCovered position: 2007-2022 - Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Smith 2005-2007 - Legislative Director/Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Smith 2001 - 2005 - Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Adam Smith17 filings1 client · through 2026
Kendell Pease16 filings1 client · through 2012
Patrick McguiganCovered position: Senator John Boozman, Defense and Veterans Affairs Advisor Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Professional Staff Member9 filings1 client · through 2026
Karen De Los SantosCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Management and Budget; Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Filemon Vela; Legislative Director, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Adam Smith6 filings1 client · through 2026
Leda Chong6 filings1 client · through 2011
James Norton6 filings1 client · through 2009
Charles H Eaton5 filings1 client · through 2008
Marshall Maurice Williams5 filings1 client · through 2008
Sharon L HardieCovered position: Legislative Correspondent - Rep. Dan Frisa4 filings1 client · through 2011
Covered positions · 14 of 26 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.
