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.
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: paper-recycling-coalition.
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.
ENG
18 filings
$710K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$420K 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
CLEAN Future Act
11 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2145119th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 202510 filingsthrough 2026
S. 351119th CongressSTEWARD Act of 202510 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3684118th CongressDouglas Mike Day Psychedelic Therapy to Save Lives Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
S. 617116th CongressTax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4040118th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1189118th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1194118th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3879117th CongressProtect America's Paper for Recycling Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 848117th CongressGREEN Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1376117th CongressProtect America's Paper for Recycling Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 923117th CongressRECYCLE Act of 20217 filingsthrough 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.
8 filings
through 2022
Peter Vance NelsonK&L Gates, LLP8 filingsthrough 2019
Ryan SeversonK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2016
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Large Case Team Coordinator, IRS; Motor Vehicle Industry Specialist, IRS; Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee4 filingsthrough 2015
Shane SkeltonBoundary Stone PartnersCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Rep. Robert E Latta; Counsel & Policy Advisor, House Committee on the Budget.2 filingsthrough 2021
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2020
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith2 filingsthrough 2019
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman1 filingthrough 2014
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/LD, Sen Baucus; Dem Chief Counsel, ; ; Sen Cmte on Env & Public Works; Chief Counsel, Sen Fin Cmte1 filingthrough 2011
Margo A DeyK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 9 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
