46 filings from 5 registrants · 2012–2019 · latest filed Jan 15, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.2M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$800K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
35 filings
$2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$260K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2394115th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include fuel cells using electromechanical processes for purposes of the energy tax credit.14 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2040116th CongressClean Energy Production Parity Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2019
Pierson W. StoeckleinEtagen, Inc.20 filingsthrough 2019
Kerry FeeheryHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Asst., Special Asst., Dep. Press Sec., Sen. Connie Mac; Press Sec. Joint Econ. Cmte.; Policy Analyst, Sen. Budget Cmte.; Comm. Dir., Sen. Mel Martinez; Dir., State Office of Sen. George Lemieux; Chief of Staff, Sen. George Lemieux.12 filingsthrough 2018
Benjamin DunhamHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senate Environment Committee; Legislative Director, Sen. Frank Lautenberg12 filingsthrough 2018
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference; Director of Coalition Outreach, Speaker of House; Policy Director, House Majority Whip; Special Assistant to Speaker of the House; Chief Counsel, Sbcmte. on Constitution, H. Judiciary Cmte.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: etagen-inc.
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.
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$10K 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.
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.
11 filingsthrough 2018
Dimitrios KarakitsosHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant; Research Assistant; Professional Staff; Counsel, Senior Counsel, Senate Environment & Public Works Committee9 filingsthrough 2018
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sr Aide/Special Asst, Rep. Abercrombie ; ; Special Asst, Rep Ackerman9 filingsthrough 2016
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm7 filingsthrough 2016
Scott David MasonHolland & Knight LLP6 filingsthrough 2018
Ryan SeversonK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2016
Thomas M. ReynoldsHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives5 filingsthrough 2018
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 Committee5 filingsthrough 2016
Peter Vance NelsonK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2016
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2017
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman4 filingsthrough 2016
Kara D'Onofrio BylerLiebman & Associates, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2013
