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: columbia-sportswear.
$40K
fees reported
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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.
5 filings
$30K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
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
State Mineral Revenue Protection Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 925115th CongressVETS Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4926113th CongressTo designate a segment of Interstate Route 35 in the State of Minnesota as the "James L. Oberstar Memorial Highway".8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3036113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2735115th CongressGSP Footwear Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2032115th CongressGSP Footwear Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1295114th CongressTrade Preferences Extension Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1267114th CongressTrade Preferences Extension Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 925114th CongressWomen on the Twenty Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1069112th CongressAffordable Footwear Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 730111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4318115th CongressMiscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2108115th CongressMiscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
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.
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 & Advance8 filingsthrough 2025
Kevin KoonceSorini Strategic Advisors F/K/A Sorini, Samet, & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg6 filingsthrough 2009
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Atty/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 & Admin3 filingsthrough 2021
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith3 filingsthrough 2019
Marne MarottaK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Barrasso; Counsel, Sen. Kelly Ayotte; Atty/Advisor Board of Veterans Appeals; Leg. Asst. Sen. Scott Brown; Leg. Fellow, HSGAC1 filingthrough 2025
Karishma Shah PageK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Associate Chief Counsel, CFTC, Div of Trading & Markets; Deputy Director, CFTC, Div of Clearing & Intermediary Oversight1 filingthrough 2019
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 Committee1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 10 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
