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.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
37 filings
$540K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
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 — 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
The 15 most-cited of 57 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1240116th CongressYoung Fishermen's Development Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 417116th CongressTo amend title 18, United States Code, to establish measures to combat invasive lionfish, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2020
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Senator Lott; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Coast Guard Fellow, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation36 filingsthrough 2026
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm13 filingsthrough 2020
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: gulf-of-mexico-reef-fish-shareholders-alliance.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
GOFISH Act
7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 200115th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2923117th CongressFishery Resource Disasters Improvement Act5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5126116th CongressDESCEND Act of 20205 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5547116th CongressManufactured Housing Community Preservation Act of 20205 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.
3 filings
through 2026
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2017
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: 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 & Admin1 filingthrough 2022
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2020
Doug HallK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2020
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2018
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2018
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2018
