Global Alliance for Cannabis Commerce — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Global Alliance for Cannabis Commerce
California
34 filings from 4 registrants · 2019–2023 · latest filed Mar 16, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$1.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.1M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$650K
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.
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 Representatives20 filingsthrough 2022
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm17 filingsthrough 2022
Randal MeyerGlobal Alliance for Cannabis CommerceCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Rand Paul
The filings
The 20 most recent of 34 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: global-alliance-for-cannabis-commerce.
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.
BAN
29 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
28 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
23 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$500K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$500K 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.
116th Congress
SAFE Banking Act of 2019
12 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1200116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 201912 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7667116th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20212 filingsthrough 2020
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.
17 filings
through 2022
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 & Advance17 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel S. Nunez CohenK&L Gates, LLP16 filingsthrough 2022
Brenden R. ChaineyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Legislative Council and Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fatah16 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman14 filingsthrough 2022
Kathleen NicholasK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Congressional and Public Affairs Intern, Natioinal Nuclear Security Administration; Staff Assistant, Senate Select Committee on Ethics13 filingsthrough 2021
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Corresponsent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer10 filingsthrough 2022
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP10 filingsthrough 2021
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP9 filingsthrough 2021
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman7 filingsthrough 2021
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Atty/Chief, AD/CVD Regulation/Assoc Ch Cnsl, DoC, Office of Genl Cnsl; Trade Cnsl detailee from DoC to JEC; Dep Staff Dir, JEC; Sr Cnsl, Sen Schumer; Sr Cnsl/Acting Dep Staff Dir/Ch Cnsl/Dem Ch Cnsl, Sen Comm Rules & Admin7 filingsthrough 2020
Jason BeckGlobal Alliance for Cannabis Commerce7 filingsthrough 2020
Barry M HartmanK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2022
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 Committee4 filingsthrough 2021
Samuel Gerald MiclotK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2022
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson2 filingsthrough 2021
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman2 filingsthrough 2019
Frank DonatelliMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)1 filingthrough 2019
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 2019
Robert WasingerMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Sam Brownback1 filingthrough 2019
Amanda ArmisteadMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)1 filingthrough 2019
Casey Mulcahy DugganMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Leg Corr, Rep. Patrick McHenry, May 15-Feb 16; Staff. Asst, Rep. McHenry, Dec 14-May 15; Int, Rep. Renee Ellmers, Sep-Dec 14.1 filingthrough 2019
Michael E. DrobacMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Legislative Director to Sen Coleman, 05-06; Sen Hutchison 03-05; Sen Smith 97-991 filingthrough 2019
EDWARD W. HILL jrMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman G.K. Butterfield1 filingthrough 2019
Brian DarlingDarling, Rothschild & Scott, LLCCovered position: Former Staffer for Sen. Rand Paul1 filingthrough 2019
Beau RothschildDarling, Rothschild & Scott, LLCCovered position: US House of Representatives ended in 20151 filingthrough 2019
Randal MeyerMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Rand Paul 2015-20161 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 22 of 32 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
