Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF · 29 clients
594 filings
$14.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 2 clients
46 filings
$940K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Thomas StapletonCovered position: Senate Legislative Staff712 filings33 clients · through 2026
John Kane (Contractor)Covered position: Deputy LD; U.S. Senate Office; Oct 05 to Mar 082 filings1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 2 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.
Mbda Holdings S.A.S.
France
2 filings
through 2012
Mbda Uk Ltd.
United Kingdom
2 filings
through 2012
Meggitt PLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 704 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: stapleton-associates-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 $15.7M in fees and $0 in expenses.
MED · 1 client
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Small Business
SMB · 1 client
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Tobacco
TOB · 1 client
2 filings
$35K 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.
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2019
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.
