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.
Science/Technology
SCI
13 filings
$260K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
1 filing
$20K 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 — 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. 746116th CongressGet Foreign Money Out of U.S. Elections Act4 filingsthrough 2020
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski5 filingsthrough 2021
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Atty/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 & Admin3 filingsthrough 2020
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 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: nanotronics-imaging-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
National Quantum Initiative Act
3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3143115th CongressNational Quantum Initiative Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2298115th CongressNew England Coastal Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
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 ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith2 filingsthrough 2020
Karishma Shah PageK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2021
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2020
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2020
