APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.

• APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. $1,250,000 In-house, the client's own filings · 7 filings
• TIDES GROUP, LLC $210,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
• CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC. $140,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
• THE FERGUSON GROUP, LLC $28,000 Outside firm · 4 filings
• SULLIVAN STRATEGIES LLC (FKA SB CAPITOL SOLUTIONS) $15,000 Outside firm · 3 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

• H.R. 1
  One Big Beautiful Bill Act
  6 filings

• 2026 $705,000 12 filings
• 2025 $938,000 16 filings

• Defense 21
• Budget/Appropriations 18
• Transportation 10
• Homeland Security 6
• Environment/Superfund 5
• Aviation/Airlines/Airports 1

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

• SENATE 27
• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 20
• Defense, Dept of (DOD) 7
• Transportation, Dept of (DOT) 4
• Federal Highway Administration (FHA) 2