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.
Transportation
TRA
66 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
28 filings
$880K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4550117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20225 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: national-association-of-trailer-manufacturers.
FIN
2 filings
$60K 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.
117th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022
5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5381111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3302111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2904114th CongressTo amend title 49, United States Code, to clarify the use of a towaway trailer transportation combination, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1692114th CongressA bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to clarify the use of a towaway trailer transportation combination, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1913112th CongressBasic Airline Services to Improve Customer Satisfaction Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2353114th CongressHighway and Transportation Funding Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
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
13 filingsthrough 2022
Stephen A. MartinkoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Rep Gibbons; LA, Rep Porter; Floor Debate Coord, House Rep Conf; Dir of Floor Debate, House Rep Conf); LD/Dep CoS/CoS, Rep Shuster10 filingsthrough 2019
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman9 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 Transportation7 filingsthrough 2026
George RiccardoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Asst., House Transportation Committee; Senior Cong. Affairs Office, Office of the Secretary (DOT); Director of Govt. Affairs, Federal Railroad Administration; Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary, Department of Transportation6 filingsthrough 2022
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2019
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Rep Upton6 filingsthrough 2016
Ryan CarneyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom MacArthur; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bryan Steil; Staff Director, House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth; Senior Advisor, Committee on House Administration3 filingsthrough 2025
Vivian BridgesK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Congressman Bill Foster; Intern, Senator Jon Osoff3 filingsthrough 2025
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2022
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2015
Mark RugeK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: COS, Congressman Bob Davis; Deputy Staff Director,3 filingsthrough 2008
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer2 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: on House Administration2 filingsthrough 2025
Peter Vance NelsonK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2018
Sarah M. BeasonK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2016
Michael PfeiferK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2016
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2015
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman2 filingsthrough 2015
Leonard BickwitK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2026
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2025
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall1 filingthrough 2024
John NorthingtonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Advisor to the Director - Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Department of Interior1 filingthrough 2024
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2021
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 19 of 33 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
