29 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2022 · latest filed Jan 18, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$70K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$70K
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.
Retirement
RET
5 filings
$30K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Karishma Shah PageK&L Gates, LLP9 filingsthrough 2021
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/LC, Senator Gramm3 filingsthrough 2021
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee3 filingsthrough 2021
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: first-trust-portfolios-l-p.
TAX
2 filings
$40K 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.
through 2021
Daniel S. Nunez CohenK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2021
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer3 filingsthrough 2021
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 Administration3 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
