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.
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$340K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$340K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman9 filingsthrough 2020
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith5 filingsthrough 2019
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: lynas-corporation-limited.
3 filings
$50K 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.
Peter Vance NelsonK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2019
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2018
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 2018
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2019
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, DoE; Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Abraham1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
