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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
25 filings
$785K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$310K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2208118th CongressNational Seafood Supply Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5371119th CongressContinuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sen. Byron Dorgan - Asst. Chief of Staff, Leg, Assistant, Dep. Chief of Staff; Dept. of Energy - Deputy Director of Scheduling & Advance36 filingsthrough 2026
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer16 filingsthrough 2025
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Senator Lott; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Coast Guard Fellow, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: pacific-seafood-group.
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.
15 filings
$80K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$160K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
4 filings
$50K 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.
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.
8 filingsthrough 2021
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2024
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper7 filingsthrough 2024
Todd BertosonCapitol Hill Policy Group LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ted Stevens; Counsel, Senate Commerce
Committee; Staff Director, Senate Commerce Committee5 filingsthrough 2019
Scott NelsonSummit Strategies Government Affairs LLCCovered position: Dpty Dir Sched & Adv, USDOE; Dpty COS, Asst, Sen Byron Dorgan5 filingsthrough 2017
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2020
Scott NelsonScnelson Law Office LLCCovered position: Dpty Dir Sched & Adv, USDOE; Dpty COS, Asst, Sen Byron Dorgan4 filingsthrough 2017
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2024
Eli SchooleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Jerry Moran3 filingsthrough 2021
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm3 filingsthrough 2020
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2020
Joseph TrahernK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff Rep. Bob Matsui; Chief of Staff Rep. Doris Matsui1 filingthrough 2024
Brenden R. ChaineyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Legislative Council and Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fatah1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 12 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
