23 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jan 21, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$30K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$30K
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.
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
20 filings
$30K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5883111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3813111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: N/A18 filingsthrough 2014
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: USSOCOM Legislative Director17 filingsthrough 2014
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: clean-technology-sustainable-industries-organization-ctsi.
H.R. 7324110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20091 filingthrough 2008
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 2009
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Barton; COS Rep. Stockman; LD, Rep Wicker7 filingsthrough 2009
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: N/A7 filingsthrough 2008
EDWARD CHARLES OLIVARES jrK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: USSOCOM Legislative Liaison6 filingsthrough 2009
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Dep Dir for Scheduling & Advance, DOE5 filingsthrough 2009
Chad SeeK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst for Senators Rockefeller & Murray4 filingsthrough 2008
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst to Director, Exec. Office of the President4 filingsthrough 2008
Christopher HopfenspergerK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2009
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Asst, Rep Ackerman2 filingsthrough 2009
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2013
