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.
Cliff RothensteinK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Prof Staff, Senate Environment & Public Works Committee; Deputy Asst Administrator, Solid Waste & Emergency Response, EPA; Office Director, Underground Storage Tanks, EPA; Office Director, Legislative Affairs & Policy Communications, FHA/DOT42 filingsthrough 2025
RICHARD FINN jrPort of Portland35 filingsthrough 2017
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 & Advance33 filingsthrough 2026
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLP 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 123 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: port-of-portland.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
AVI
64 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
47 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
46 filings
$3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
34 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
32 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
19 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
6 filings
$540K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$230K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
4 filings
$355K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$99K 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.
118th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8812118th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20245 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1605117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20225 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3011117th CongressState, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8812119th CongressBuild Nuclear with Local Materials Act of 20264 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20204 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20204 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 4552119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2465119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4367119th CongressHot Rotisserie Chicken Act3 filingsthrough 2026
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:
31 filingsthrough 2026
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson20 filingsthrough 2023
Ann E. GravattPort of Portland20 filingsthrough 2022
Scott NelsonScnelson Law Office LLCCovered position: Dpty Dir Sch & Adv, USDOE; Dpty COS, Asst, Sen Byron Dorgan14 filingsthrough 2017
Elvia MontoyaPort of PortlandCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Jeff Merkley; Policy Advisor/Legislative Assistant, Senator Jeff Merkley; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jeff Merkley; Staff Assistant, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici8 filingsthrough 2024
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski7 filingsthrough 2019
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2018
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 Transportation.6 filingsthrough 2026
Gail GreenmanPort of Portland6 filingsthrough 2026
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer6 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph TrahernK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff Rep. Bob Matsui; Chief of Staff Rep. Doris Matsui5 filingsthrough 2026
Peter Vance NelsonK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2019
Brody Ryan GarlandK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2019
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Democratic Chief Counsel and Deputy Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance3 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 Transportation3 filingsthrough 2022
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2021
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper2 filingsthrough 2023
Jordan CooperK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Spec. Assistant to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation2 filingsthrough 2022
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2019
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2019
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief, AD/CVD Regulation/Assoc Chief Counsel, DoC, Office of General Counsel; Trade Counsel detailee from DoC to JEC; Dep Staff Dir, JEC; Sr Counesl, Sen Schumer; Sr Counsel/Acting Dep Staff Dir/Chief Counsel/Dem Chief Counsel, Sen Comm Rules & Admin1 filingthrough 2023
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall1 filingthrough 2022
Darrell ConnerK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 17 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
