24 filings from 3 registrants · 2018–2024 · latest filed Oct 20, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$955K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$955K
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.
Robert DiamondCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President and Director of Private Sector Engagement, President Barack Obama.8 filingsthrough 2022
Lisa WhislerCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Max Baucus.6 filingsthrough 2024
Gerald T HarringtonCapitol City Group, Ltd.6 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: byd-north-america.
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.
2 filings
$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.
118th Congress
Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
2 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20212 filingsthrough 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.
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith
3 filingsthrough 2018
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2018
Martin B. GoldCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Floor Adviser & Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
