Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF · 4 clients
114 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 2 clients
30 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
WILLIAM L BALL iiiCovered position: Department of the Navy, Secretary, 1988-89.189 filings9 clients · through 2026
Covered positions · 1 of 1 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.
A.P. Moller - Maersk Group
Denmark
1 filing
through 2018
A.P. Moller-Maersk Group
Denmark
1 filing
through 2018
Nova Chemicals, Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 176 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Client
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Governor'S Defense Initiative, Georgia Dept. of Economic Development
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: william-ball.
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 $6.7M in fees and $360K in expenses.
FOO · 1 client
28 filings
$625K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
7 filings
$205K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 2 clients
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Housing
HOU · 1 client
4 filings
$20K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
1 filing
$10K 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.
Canada
1 filing
through 2013
E.ON Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2012
Eads Nv
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2009
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.
Governor'S Defense Initiative, Georgia Dept. of Economic Development
