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.
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$280K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
9 filings
$150K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer6 filingsthrough 2025
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. George Nethercutt, Jr.2 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: gordon-food-service-inc.
TAX
8 filings
$230K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
7 filings
$100K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$50K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$110K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
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.
117th Congress
DRIVE-SAFE Act
3 filingsthrough 2021
S. 659117th CongressDRIVE Safe Act3 filingsthrough 2021
S. 2902117th CongressFederal Information Security Modernization Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
S. 569116th CongressDRIVE-Safe Act1 filingthrough 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.
2 filingsthrough 2024
Ryan CarneyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom MacArthur; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bryan Steil; Staff Director, House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth; Senior Advisor, Committee on House Administration1 filingthrough 2025
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 & Advance1 filingthrough 2023
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2023
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm1 filingthrough 2020
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2020
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
