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.
Computer Industry
CPI
9 filings
$260K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1443110th CongressConsumer Fairness Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
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: dell-computer-corporation.
TAX
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
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.
110th Congress
Patent Reform Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2942110th CongressCurrency Reform for Fair Trade Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3010110th CongressArbitration Fairness Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4192110th CongressOVERDUE Immigration Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 782110th CongressFair Currency Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 11111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 12111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
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.
W Dennis Stephens
K&L Gates, LLP
4 filingsthrough 2008
Stephen CooperK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2008
Steve P RobertsK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Laura SallstromMs. Laura Sallstrom1 filingthrough 2008
