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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Education
EDU
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.2 filingsthrough 2017
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm7 filingsthrough 2018
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Large Case Team Coordinator, IRS; Motor Vehicle Industry Specialist, IRS; Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee5 filingsthrough 2018
Mark RugeK&L Gates, LLP
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: business-leaders-for-michigan.
Business Leaders for Michigan — Receipts Report
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$10K 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.
113th Congress
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
2 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act2 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4438113th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
S. 1356113th CongressWorkforce Investment Act of 20131 filingthrough 2014
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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.
4 filings
through 2018
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith4 filingsthrough 2018
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 2018
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2018
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sen. Byron Dorgan - Asst. Chief of Staff, Leg, Assistant, Dep. Chief of Staff; Dept. of Energy - Deputy Director of Scheduling & Advance2 filingsthrough 2017
Stephen A. MartinkoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Rep Gibbons; LA, Rep Porter; Floor Debate Coord/Dir of Floor Debate, House Rep Conf; LD/Dep CoS/CoS, Rep Shuster; Dep Staff Dir, House T&I Committee2 filingsthrough 2017
Amanda MakkiK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Confidential Asst, Dept. of Army, DOD; Legal Intern, HELP Comm.; Senior Health Advisor, Rep. Fortenberry; Senior Health Adviisor, Sen. Murkowski2 filingsthrough 2017
