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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF
61 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 75 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 2299117th CongressCADETS Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20176 filingsthrough 2016
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: consortium-of-state-maritime-academies.
MAR
37 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Education
EDU
1 filing
$50K 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.
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20244 filingsthrough 2024
S. 467118th CongressCADETS Act4 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4005113th CongressCoast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4552119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2465119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4820118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2437118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Christiana GoffK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2025
Doug HallK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2020
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2015
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer3 filingsthrough 2024
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2022
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2017
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U. S. Senator2 filingsthrough 2015
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2015
Thomas Finch FultonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Rep. Jim McCrery; Dir of Constituent Services, Systems Admin, Rep. John Fleming; Leg Correspondent/Leg Assistant Sen. Jeff Sessions; Special Advisor to the Secretary/Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Dept. of Transportation.1 filingthrough 2026
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 & Advance1 filingthrough 2023
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2020
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2017
Andrew J. NewhartK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern/LA, House Committee on Homeland Security; Scheduler/Office Manager, Rep Weiner1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 12 of 25 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
