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
28 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$10K 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 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4993118th CongressTo amend title 46, United States Code, to include the replacement or purchase of additional cargo handling equipment as an eligible purpose for Capital Construction Funds, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2024
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: institute-of-international-container-lessors.
spend on filings that named this issue
119th Congress
Restoring Biological Truth in Government Act
4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2016117th CongressSurface Transportation Investment Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3268117th CongressImproving Memphis' Supply Chain Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3842119th CongressTo amend title 46, United States Code, to include the replacement or purchase of additional cargo handling equipment as an eligible purpose for Capital Construction Funds, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 162117th CongressTo amend the CARES Act to provide for repayment terms for mortgages in forbearance, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4996117th CongressOcean Shipping Reform Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3262117th CongressFREIGHT Act3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 605117th CongressStop Underrides Act3 filingsthrough 2021
S. 1536119th CongressBuilding Ships in America Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1541119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2025
S. 3580117th CongressOcean Shipping Reform Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Jeffrey J. Denham
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: US Congressman
3 filingsthrough 2022
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 Transportation2 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas Finch FultonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Rep. Jim McCrery; Dir of Constituent Services, Systems Admin, Rep. John Fleming; Leg Correspondent/Leg Assistant Sen. Jeff Sessions; Special Advisor to the Secretary/Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Dept. of Transportation.2 filingsthrough 2025
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: US Congressman2 filingsthrough 2023
George RiccardoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Asst., House Transportation Committee; Senior Cong. Affairs Office, Office of the Secretary (DOT); Director of Govt. Affairs, Federal Railroad Administration; Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary, Department of Transportation2 filingsthrough 2021
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: US Congressman2 filingsthrough 2020
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 Committee2 filingsthrough 2019
John NorthingtonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Advisor to the Director - Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Department of Interior1 filingthrough 2024
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 2022
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 12 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
