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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
10 filings
$160K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2175115th CongressBREATH Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6012114th CongressBREATH Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen CooperK&L Gates, LLP11 filingsthrough 2018
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman6 filingsthrough 2017
Victoria K. HamschoK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2016
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith4 filingsthrough 2016
Laura Racheal Cohen
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: med-emporium-llc.
114th Congress
BREATH Act of 2016
2 filingsthrough 2016
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.
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: Intern, House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Sub-Committee on Health
4 filingsthrough 2016
Donald DempseyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LA, Sen Gramm; LA Sen Kyl; Director of Health Policy, Sen Budget Committee; LD, Sen Burr; Associate Director, OMB3 filingsthrough 2016
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2017
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 2016
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2015
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2016
Emanuel L RouvelasK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2016
Corbin SantoK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 7 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
