8 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2018 · latest filed Jan 19, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$100K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$100K
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.
Computer Industry
CPI
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1324115th CongressSecuring IoT Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2017
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith3 filingsthrough 2017
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2017
Dennis Potter
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: device-authority.
4 filings
$100K 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.
115th Congress
DIGIT Act
5 filingsthrough 2017
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.
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm
2 filingsthrough 2017
Elana SafnerK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2017
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2017
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2017
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2017
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Aide, Office of Natl. Drug Control Policy ; LA, LD, Chief of Staff, Rep. George Nethercutt, Jr.1 filingthrough 2017
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2017
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 6 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
