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.
Agriculture
AGR
27 filings
$300K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$240K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3164116th CongressMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith13 filingsthrough 2020
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP12 filingsthrough 2022
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm10 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: just-greens-llc.
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$30K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
2 filings
$20K 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.
115th Congress
Make America Secure Appropriations Act, 2018
3 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5054114th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2956114th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4356117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20222 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8239117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2522116th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20202 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3268115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20182 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1603115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5973112th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2375112th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
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. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman8 filingsthrough 2022
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman8 filingsthrough 2019
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer7 filingsthrough 2023
Brenden R. ChaineyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel and Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fatah6 filingsthrough 2023
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator6 filingsthrough 2018
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper4 filingsthrough 2023
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senate Subcomm. on Arts, Education & Humanities4 filingsthrough 2012
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 & Advance3 filingsthrough 2023
Anne LemayK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LA/Dir of Def & For Affairs, Rep McHugh; Prof Staff, House Armed Svces Comm; Spec Asst/CoS to Secty of Army3 filingsthrough 2018
John MchughK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman; Secretary of the U. S. Army [HOUSE CONTACTS ONLY - NOT DOD]3 filingsthrough 2018
Amanda MakkiK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Confidential Asst, Dept. of Army, DOD; Legal Intern, HELP Comm.; Senior Health Advisor, Rep. Fortenberry; Senior Health Adviisor, Sen. Murkowski3 filingsthrough 2018
Eugene ShestakovK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Dan Sullivan2 filingsthrough 2021
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2022
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Atty/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 2018
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2014
Chad SeeK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Senators Murray and Rockefeller1 filingthrough 2012
Leslie J SackK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor, Department of Energy1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 20 of 25 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
