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.
Aerospace
AER
24 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
21 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 41 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2809115th CongressAmerican Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act6 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
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: maxar-technologies-holdings-inc-f-k-a-ssl-mda-holdings.
4 filings
$320K 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.
116th Congress
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2020
5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5666116th CongressNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 20204 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3219115th CongressMake America Secure Appropriations Act, 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3267115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4505117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8256117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
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.
9 filingsthrough 2021
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith9 filingsthrough 2020
Eugene ShestakovK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Dan Sullivan8 filingsthrough 2023
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall7 filingsthrough 2023
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm4 filingsthrough 2021
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman4 filingsthrough 2018
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2021
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman3 filingsthrough 2020
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator3 filingsthrough 2019
Andrew Hillerich TablerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs2 filingsthrough 2022
Doug HallK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2020
Anne LemayK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LA/Dir of Def & For Affairs, Rep McHugh; Prof Staff, House Armed Svces Comm; Spec Asst/CoS to Secty of Army2 filingsthrough 2017
John MchughK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman; Secretary of the U. S. Army2 filingsthrough 2017
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: 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 & Admin1 filingthrough 2021
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer1 filingthrough 2021
Eli SchooleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Jerry Moran1 filingthrough 2019
