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.
Garth SpencerAnsys, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Special Assistant (Schedule C), U.S. Department of Energy; Projects Director, Office of U.S. Senator Tom Carper.12 filingsthrough 2025
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm11 filingsthrough 2022
Bruce CostelloAnsys, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman
The filings
The 20 most recent of 40 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: ansys-inc.
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.
10 filings
$1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$720K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
9 filings
$650K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
5 filings
$720K on those filings
Education
EDU
5 filings
$540K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$300K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$210K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
2 filings
$190K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
1 filing
$150K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$150K 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.
117th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022
3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4346119th CongressPEACE Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
S. 866119th CongressAccelerating Broadband Permits Act1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 4346118th CongressSmall Bank Holding Company Relief Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
S. 866118th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act1 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act1 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2021
S. 1605117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20221 filingthrough 2021
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.
7 filings
through 2022
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2021
Gabe ShermanThe Artemis Group, LLC (Oklahoma)Covered position: District Director, United States House of Representatives, Hon. Bridenstine; Chief of Staff, NASA6 filingsthrough 2026
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2022
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall4 filingsthrough 2022
Eli SchooleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Jerry Moran4 filingsthrough 2021
Stephen EmpedoclesClark Street Associates4 filingsthrough 2020
Shawna Francis WatleyHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA, Sen. J. Robert Kerrey3 filingsthrough 2022
Leslie PollnerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Suzanne Kosmas; Chief of Staff, Rep. Tim Mahoney3 filingsthrough 2022
Nicholas LeibhamHolland & Knight LLP3 filingsthrough 2022
Kathleen NicholasHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Congressional and Public Affairs Intern, National Nuclear Security Administration; Staff Assistant, Senate Select Committee on Ethics3 filingsthrough 2022
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2021
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep. Johnson3 filingsthrough 2021
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2020
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Atty/Chief, AD/CVD Regulation/Assoc Ch Cnsl, DoC, Office of Genl Cnsl; Trade Cnsl detailee from DoC to JEC; Dep Staff Dir, JEC; Sr Cnsl, Sen Schumer; Sr Cnsl/Acting Dep Staff Dir/Ch Cnsl/Dem Ch Cnsl, Sen Comm Rules & Admin3 filingsthrough 2020
Lane LewisAnsys, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2020
George RiccardoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Asst., House Transportation Committee; Senior Cong. Affairs Office, Office of the Secretary (DOT); Director of Govt. Affairs, Federal Railroad Administration; Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary, Department of Transportation2 filingsthrough 2022
Ava L. BoydAnsys, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters; Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services.2 filingsthrough 2022
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2021
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2021
Tracy Lee LawlessK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2021
Samuel Gerald MiclotK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2021
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer1 filingthrough 2022
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2021
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, DoE; Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Abraham1 filingthrough 2021
Brenden R. ChaineyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Legislative Counsel and Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fatah1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 17 of 30 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
