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.
Defense
DEF
14 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
10 filings
$1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 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: inmarsat-plc-d-b-a-inmarsat-aviation.
10 filings
$1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$1M 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
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3353115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4115th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6072115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1655115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2987115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20182 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Covered position:
8 filingsthrough 2020
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith7 filingsthrough 2019
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm6 filingsthrough 2019
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman6 filingsthrough 2019
Stephen A. MartinkoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Rep Gibbons; LA, Rep Porter; Floor Debate Coord/Dir of Floor Debate, House Rep Conf; LD/Dep CoS/CoS, Rep Shuster; Dep Staff Dir, House T&I Committee4 filingsthrough 2018
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2020
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2020
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2019
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 7 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
