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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
22 filings
$100K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
7 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 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper1 filingthrough 2023
Eugene ShestakovK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Dan Sullivan
The filings
The 20 most recent of 26 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: industrial-technology-institute.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3072115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20202 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2584116th CongressAn original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3267115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3354115th CongressMake America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20192 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1662115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
S. 2987115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20192 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
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.
1 filingthrough 2022
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2018
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm1 filingthrough 2017
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
