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.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
53 filings
$15.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
9 filings
$2M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 95 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 632116th CongressTo direct the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessel Safari Voyager.9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 633116th CongressTo direct the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessel Pacific Provider.9 filingsthrough 2020
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: american-maritime-partnership.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Open America's Waters Act of 2019
9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2518115th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3409116th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1873116th CongressProtecting Access to American Products Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1894115th CongressA bill to exempt Puerto Rico from the coastwise laws of the United States (commonly known as the "Jones Act").7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2297116th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1561115th CongressOpen America's Waters Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3151119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1536119th CongressBuilding Ships in America Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1541119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5498116th CongressNoncontiguous Shipping Relief Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
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.
through 2026
Emanuel L RouvelasK&L Gates, LLP31 filingsthrough 2020
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman23 filingsthrough 2024
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm18 filingsthrough 2020
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP17 filingsthrough 2022
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP16 filingsthrough 2025
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP14 filingsthrough 2019
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Rep Upton13 filingsthrough 2025
Stephen A. MartinkoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Rep Gibbons; LA, Rep Porter; Floor Debate Coord, House Rep Conf; Dir of Floor Debate, House Rep Conf); LD/Dep CoS/CoS, Rep Shuster12 filingsthrough 2019
Sarah M. BeasonK&L Gates, LLP12 filingsthrough 2018
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Asst Atty Gen, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith10 filingsthrough 2018
William MyhreK&L Gates, LLP9 filingsthrough 2017
Doug HallK&L Gates, LLP8 filingsthrough 2021
Nickolas G. MilonasK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2015
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman5 filingsthrough 2017
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
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, DoE; Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Abraham4 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman4 filingsthrough 2022
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2017
Brody Ryan GarlandK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Intern, Senator Cory Booker3 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew J. NewhartK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Scheduler/Office Manager, Rep Weiner3 filingsthrough 2014
Thomas Finch FultonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Rep. Jim McCrery; Dir of Constituent Services, Systems Admin, Rep. John Fleming; Leg Correspondent/Leg Assistant Sen. Jeff Sessions; Special Advisor to the Secretary/Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Dept. of Transportation.2 filingsthrough 2026
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Democratic Chief Counsel and Deputy Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance1 filingthrough 2024
Andrew Hillerich TablerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 22 of 37 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
