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.
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: lake-carriers-association.
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.
TRA
19 filings
$530K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$330K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$1M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$570K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$440K 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.
113th Congress
Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2014
9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2830110th CongressTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2008
S. 218113th CongressHarbor Maintenance Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2440116th CongressFull Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3409116th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2273113th CongressGreat Lakes Navigation System Sustainability Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.Res. 236113th CongressExpressing the sense of the House of Representatives on fully spending the receipts of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund on United States ports and harbors each year, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
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.
30 filingsthrough 2024
Sarah HeltonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern Congressman Sensenbrenner, 200614 filingsthrough 2018
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer12 filingsthrough 2026
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman12 filingsthrough 2018
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP12 filingsthrough 2017
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith11 filingsthrough 2022
Kevin SwansonMichael Best Strategies LLC11 filingsthrough 2018
Stephen A. MartinkoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Rep Gibbons; LA, Rep Porter; Floor Debate Coord, House Rep Conf; Dir of Floor Debate, House Rep Conf); LD/Dep CoS/CoS, Rep Shuster11 filingsthrough 2018
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman9 filingsthrough 2023
Robert K DawsonDawson & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of the Army, Civil Works9 filingsthrough 2013
Don T RileyDawson & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Major General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers9 filingsthrough 2013
Joseph Richard CapkaDawson & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Federal Highway Administrator9 filingsthrough 2013
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLP9 filingsthrough 2010
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP8 filingsthrough 2019
Patrick G HeckK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: sight Subcomm. of House Ways & Means Comm.7 filingsthrough 2010
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 & Advance6 filingsthrough 2024
James H I WeakleyLake Carriers AssociationCovered position: President5 filingsthrough 2009
Emanuel L RouvelasK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Ryan CarneyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom MacArthur; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bryan Steil; Staff Director, House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth; Senior Advisor, Committee on House Administration3 filingsthrough 2025
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Sen Gramm3 filingsthrough 2016
Elle Marie Stuart BurnsK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2026
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 & Admin2 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 29 of 44 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
