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.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
57 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
43 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Transportation
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 59 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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: matson-navigation.
TRA
6 filings
$350K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$90K 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
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2017
7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 168115th CongressCommercial Vessel Incidental Discharge Act7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3001118th CongressMaritime Fuel Tax Parity Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5498116th CongressNoncontiguous Shipping Relief Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1267112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on certain vessels.5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 57112th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on certain vessels.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20214 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1561115th CongressOpen America's Waters Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1894115th CongressA bill to exempt Puerto Rico from the coastwise laws of the United States (commonly known as the "Jones Act").4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3151119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1536119th CongressBuilding Ships in America Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2025
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.
Mary Burke Baker
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Sen Fin Comm
26 filingsthrough 2025
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLP21 filingsthrough 2025
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Democratic Chief Counsel and Deputy Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance16 filingsthrough 2026
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP11 filingsthrough 2020
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman9 filingsthrough 2024
Leonard BickwitK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2025
Doug HallK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2021
Michael F ScanlonK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2018
Sarah M. BeasonK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2017
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 & Advance4 filingsthrough 2024
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2017
Judson GreifK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2016
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2024
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman3 filingsthrough 2017
Brody Ryan GarlandK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Intern, Senator Cory Booker2 filingsthrough 2026
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson2 filingsthrough 2019
Stephen A. MartinkoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Rep Gibbons; LA, Rep Porter; Floor Debate Coord/Dir of Floor Debate, House Rep Conf; LD/Dep CoS/CoS, Rep Shuster; Dep Staff Dir, House T&I Committee2 filingsthrough 2018
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2017
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2017
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2015
Thomas Finch FultonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Rep. Jim McCrery; Dir of Constituent Services, Systems Admin, Rep. John Fleming; Leg Correspondent/Leg Assistant Sen. Jeff Sessions; Special Advisor to the Secretary/Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Dept. of Transportation.1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 18 of 38 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
