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
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Housing
HOU
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1702111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1524111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1426112th CongressForeign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2012 and 20133 filingsthrough 2012
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: international-housing-coalition.
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
9 filings
$90K 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.
112th Congress
Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2013
2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3081111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3676111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1016112th CongressAssessing Progress in Haiti Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2139111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 1702110th CongressCommon Sense Budget Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: Counsel/LD, Rep Smith
4 filingsthrough 2012
Scott T BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC/Asst Press Secty, Rep Inslee2 filingsthrough 2009
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator1 filingthrough 2011
Steve P RobertsK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
