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.
Education
EDU
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Department of Energy12 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper5 filingsthrough 2024
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer4 filingsthrough 2024
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP
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: national-glass-association.
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Animals
ANI
1 filing
$30K 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.
H.R. 8506119th CongressSAFE School Act1 filingthrough 2026
S. 3472119th CongressNational Strategy for School Security Act of 20251 filingthrough 2026
S. 3846119th CongressEmployer-Directed Skills Act1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 2491118th CongressSAFE School Act1 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 378118th CongressTo designate all of Puerto Rico as an opportunity zone.1 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 887118th CongressSecuring Our Students Act1 filingthrough 2024
S. 1107118th CongressSAFE School Act1 filingthrough 2024
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.
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall2 filingsthrough 2024
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2022
Brody Ryan GarlandK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee; Intern, Senator Cory Booker1 filingthrough 2026
Jasper NobleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Sen. Chuck Schumer; Law Clerk, Sen. Richard Blumenthal/Sen Judiciary Cmte; Law Clerk, Sen. Jon Ossoff/Sen. Judiciary Cmte; Law Clerk, Sen Finance Cmte1 filingthrough 2026
David SkillmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Dep CoS, Counsel Rep. Earl Blumenauer1 filingthrough 2026
Michael Heard SnowK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Extern, House Select Cmte on Climate Crisis1 filingthrough 2026
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee1 filingthrough 2024
Brenden R. ChaineyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel and Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fatah1 filingthrough 2023
Andrew Hillerich TablerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 16 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
