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 lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
52 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
25 filings
$1M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1399115th CongressAmerican Soda Ash Competitiveness Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1443115th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act8 filingsthrough 2018
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: agc-america-inc.
13 filings
$860K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
13 filings
$410K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$390K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$100K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
3 filings
$320K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$110K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$110K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
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 spend 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.
115th Congress
Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 546115th CongressAmerican Soda Ash Competitiveness Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1885115th CongressAV START Act6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2657116th CongressAGILE Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6147115th CongressInterior, Environment, Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3073115th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1992114th CongressAmerican Soda Ash Competitiveness Act3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2031114th CongressAmerican Soda Ash Competitiveness Act3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3354115th CongressMake America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Covered position: N/A
19 filingsthrough 2023
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith13 filingsthrough 2020
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer11 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew Hillerich TablerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs9 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick G HeckK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Oversight Subcomm, House Ways & Means Comm7 filingsthrough 2012
Leonard BickwitK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2025
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2026
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. George Nethercutt, Jr.4 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan CarneyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom MacArthur; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bryan Steil; Staff Director, House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth; Senior Advisor, Committee on House Administration4 filingsthrough 2025
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: for Scheduling, DOE4 filingsthrough 2024
John NorthingtonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Advisor to the Director - Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Department of Interior4 filingsthrough 2024
John SpinelloK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Enforcement/Assoc Gen Counsel, EPA4 filingsthrough 2013
Ryan SeversonK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2014
Chad SeeK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: STAFF ASST, SENATOR MURRAY; STAFF ASST, SEN. ROCKEFELLER3 filingsthrough 2008
Ellen Livingston BehanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE SECRETARY, DEPT. OF ENERGY3 filingsthrough 2008
Victoria K. HamschoK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2024
Tracy Lee LawlessK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2024
Joseph TrahernK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff Rep. Bob Matsui; Chief of Staff Rep. Doris Matsui2 filingsthrough 2024
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2023
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2021
Brian Montag (Listed In Error)K&L Gates, LLPCovered position: N/A2 filingsthrough 2008
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2025
Matthew LeggettK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Min Ch Cnsl, Sen Energy & Natural Resources Comm; Maj Ch Cnsl, Sen Environment & Public Works Comm; Maj Deputy Ch Cnsl, Sen Environment & Public Works Comm; Policy Cnsl, Sen Republican Policy Comm; Leg Cnsl, Rep. Tim Murphy; Leg Asst, House Ag Comm1 filingthrough 2025
Elle Marie Stuart BurnsK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2025
Karishma Shah PageK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 23 of 36 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
