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.
Postal
POS
32 filings
$3.5M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3076117th CongressPostal Service Reform Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1720117th CongressPostal Service Reform Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
Michael F ScanlonK&L Gates, LLP34 filingsthrough 2026
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP32 filingsthrough 2026
Bruce HeimanK&L Gates, LLP30 filingsthrough 2025
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD Senator Smith17 filingsthrough 2023
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLP Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper
The filings
The 20 most recent of 32 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: package-coalition-llc.
S. 2974116th CongressU.S. Postal Service Opioid and Illicit Drug Strategy Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
H.R. 6076115th CongressPostal Reform Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
S. 2629115th CongressPostal Service Reform Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
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.
Covered position:
13 filingsthrough 2024
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, DoE; Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Abraham12 filingsthrough 2023
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/L.C. Senator Gramm12 filingsthrough 2022
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman9 filingsthrough 2022
Carolyn LowryK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2020
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer6 filingsthrough 2026
Christiana GoffK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2026
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 Administration5 filingsthrough 2025
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2020
John MchughK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman; Secretary of the U.S. Army5 filingsthrough 2019
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 & Advance4 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2022
Marne MarottaK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Barrasso; Counsel, Sen. Kelly Ayotte; Atty/Advisor Board of Veterans Appeals; Leg. Asst. Sen. Scott Brown; Leg. Fellow, HSGAC2 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew LeggettK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Min Ch Cnsl, Sen Energy & Natural Resources Comm; Maj Ch Cnsl, Sen Environment & Public Works Comm; Maj Deputy Ch Cnsl, Sen Environment & Public Works Comm; Policy Cnsl, Sen Republican Policy Comm; Leg Cnsl, Rep. Tim Murphy; Leg Asst, House Ag Comm2 filingsthrough 2025
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson2 filingsthrough 2020
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 & Admin2 filingsthrough 2020
Peter Vance NelsonK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2018
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Democratic Chief Counsel and Deputy Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance1 filingthrough 2025
Jamie JacksonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sr Col, Rep. Steny Hoyer; Sr Col, DOJ; Scty Clr Col, OPP; Dep Gen Col, HASC; Staff Lead, Subc on Oversight and Investig and Col, HASC; Spec Asst to the Asst Sec of Def for Leg Affairs DOD; Natl Scty Dir, OPP; Leg Asst, Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson1 filingthrough 2024
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman1 filingthrough 2020
Elle Marie Stuart BurnsK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2019
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2018
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2018
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 Transportation1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 20 of 30 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
