16 filings from 2 registrants · 2018–2022 · latest filed Jan 13, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$20K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$20K
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.
Science/Technology
SCI
10 filings
$20K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20214 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20214 filingsthrough 2020
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP9 filingsthrough 2020
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2020
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith5 filingsthrough 2019
Reilly O'ConnorLincoln Park Group L.L.C.4 filingsthrough 2022
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLP Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm
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: fincom-ltd.
116th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
2 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20202 filingsthrough 2019
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.
Covered position:
4 filingsthrough 2020
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator4 filingsthrough 2019
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 Committee4 filingsthrough 2019
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2021
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 & Advance2 filingsthrough 2019
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2018
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2018
Anne LemayK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LA/Dir of Def & For Affairs, Rep McHugh; Prof Staff, House Armed Svces Comm; Spec Asst/CoS to Secty of Army2 filingsthrough 2018
Kathleen NicholasK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Congressional and Public Affairs Intern, Natioinal Nuclear Security Administration; Staff Assistant, Senate Select Committee on Ethics1 filingthrough 2020
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Office of the Speaker; General Counsel, Committee on House Oversight; Minority Counsel, Committee on House Administration; Deputy Clerk of the House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2019
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 12 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
