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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
16 filings
$590K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$80K 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 — 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.
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: cyanco-international.
spend on filings that named this issue
117th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022
4 filingsthrough 2022
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 Smith9 filingsthrough 2020
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 & Advance7 filingsthrough 2023
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2021
Cliff RothensteinK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Senator Lott; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Coast Guard Fellow, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation6 filingsthrough 2020
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman6 filingsthrough 2020
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2021
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman5 filingsthrough 2021
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator4 filingsthrough 2020
Peter Vance NelsonK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2019
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2022
Eugene ShestakovK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Dan Sullivan3 filingsthrough 2021
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer2 filingsthrough 2022
George RiccardoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Asst., House Transportation Committee; Senior Cong. Affairs Office, Office of the Secretary (DOT); Director of Govt. Affairs, Federal Railroad Administration; Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary, Department of Transportation2 filingsthrough 2021
Darrell ConnerK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall1 filingthrough 2022
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 13 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
