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.
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: avis-budget-group-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.
CSP
37 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
17 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
2 filings
$420K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$10K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$10K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$10K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
2 filings
$10K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
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.
115th Congress
Modernizing Government Travel Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3938118th CongressBuild It in America Act6 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep. Johnson28 filingsthrough 2023
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith27 filingsthrough 2022
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLP22 filingsthrough 2020
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman17 filingsthrough 2022
Sarah Elizabeth ShiveCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, Sen. Debbie Stabenow; Senior Counsel, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV.15 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick G. HeckCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senate Finance Comm:Chief Democratic Tax Counsel; Sen. Finance Comm.: Tax Counsel/Chief Investigative Counsel; House Committee on Ways and Means:Assistant Counsel.3 filingsthrough 2023
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2020
Peter Vance NelsonK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2016
Robert S MarkinChico & Nunes, P.C.3 filingsthrough 2009
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Senator Lott; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Coast Guard Fellow, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation2 filingsthrough 2020
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator2 filingsthrough 2017
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel Senate Finance Committee2 filingsthrough 2013
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2023
Darrell ConnerK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2021
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: 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 & Admin1 filingthrough 2021
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 Transportation1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 23 of 35 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
