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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Science/Technology
SCI
12 filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 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.
H.R. 554111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 820111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4522111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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: nanobusiness-commercialization-association.
113th Congress
Start-up Jobs and Innovation Act
4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5116111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Steven Richards Valentine
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: Counsel/LD, Rep Smith
5 filingsthrough 2010
Roger MorseK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Republican Study Comm; LD, Rep Hilleary4 filingsthrough 2009
