38 filings from 1 registrant · 2012–2021 · latest filed May 13, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$390K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$390K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
17 filings
$160K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
15 filings
$230K 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 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2609113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1245113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2013
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-security-action-fund-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3266115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1609115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2975115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4923113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5325112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2465112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4447116th CongressClean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7613116th CongressMaking appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2470116th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20202 filingsthrough 2019
S. 133116th CongressMerchant Mariners of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 20191 filingthrough 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.
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman6 filingsthrough 2014
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith4 filingsthrough 2019
