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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
45 filings
$1.7M 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.
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: lower-passaic-river-study-area-coop.
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith
4 filingsthrough 2017
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Rep Upton1 filingthrough 2014
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Barton; CoS, Rep Stockman; LD, Rep Wicker1 filingthrough 2014
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2014
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
