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
46 filings
$510K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
18 filings
$190K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3068116th CongressOffshore Wind Jobs and Opportunity Act3 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1769116th CongressOffshore Wind Jobs and Opportunity Act3 filingsthrough 2020
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Sen Lott; Professional Staff/Coast Guard Fellow, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: massachusetts-maritime-academy-inc.
10 filings
$100K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
9 filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Education
EDU
1 filing
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
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018
3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5303114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2848114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4745113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2438113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5972112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2322112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4550117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20222 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1439116th CongressMaritime Administration Authorization and Enhancement Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 8115th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2800115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
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.
13 filingsthrough 2020
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2015
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman5 filingsthrough 2018
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2014
Michael O'NeilK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Counselor to Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, DOD; Chief of Staff, CIA; General Counsel, CIA2 filingsthrough 2015
