70 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2023 · latest filed Nov 10, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$785K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$425K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$360K
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.
John William AdamsCalgon Carbon Corporation43 filingsthrough 2021
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski12 filingsthrough 2018
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 Committee12 filingsthrough 2018
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Sen Lott; Professional Staff/Coast Guard Fellow, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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: calgon-carbon-corporation.
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.
14 filings
$161K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
12 filings
$144K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$160K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
7 filings
$240K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$29K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$6K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
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
Make America Secure Appropriations Act, 2018
2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20192 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20192 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20182 filingsthrough 2017
S. 2987115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20192 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3159115th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20192 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20201 filingthrough 2019
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20201 filingthrough 2019
H.R. 5325114th CongressContinuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act1 filingthrough 2016
S. 2943114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20171 filingthrough 2016
S. 2094113th CongressVessel Incidental Discharge Act1 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.
9 filingsthrough 2016
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2018
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman5 filingsthrough 2016
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2016
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2016
