Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF · 11 clients
246 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 10 clients
192 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Government Issues
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
James W Norment304 filings12 clients · through 2026
Hugh R Overholt286 filings9 clients · through 2026
Douglas C. McintyreCovered position: former Congressman228 filings14 clients · through 2026
Samuel H. Poole71 filings2 clients · through 2017
Jonathan G Brooks39 filings5 clients · through 2026
Lee C Hodge
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Enfant-Terrible Design Ab
Sweden
1 filing
through 2021
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.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 534 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: ward-and-smith-p-a.
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 $5.3M in fees and $0 in expenses.
GOV · 9 clients
140 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN · 8 clients
135 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 7 clients
104 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 6 clients
90 filings
$2M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 6 clients
89 filings
$2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 3 clients
77 filings
$500K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 2 clients
72 filings
$30K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 5 clients
66 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 2 clients
60 filings
$150K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
49 filings
$70K 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.
13 filings1 client · through 2014
Covered positions · 1 of 6 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.
