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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
52 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
32 filings
$790K 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 — 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
The 15 most-cited of 21 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 912113th CongressTelevision Consumer Freedom Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Large Case Team Coord, IRS; Motor Vehicle Industy Specialist ; ; IRS; Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter ; ; Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Sen Fin Comm53 filingsthrough 2025
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP36 filingsthrough 2022
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP26 filingsthrough 2019
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith11 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 53 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: qurate-retail-inc-f-k-a-liberty-interactive-corporation.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6393115th Congress21st Century Internet Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 636114th CongressFAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman
6 filingsthrough 2021
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 2021
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2019
Bruce HeimanK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2019
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Rep Upton3 filingsthrough 2018
Emanuel L RouvelasK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2018
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2012
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2018
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer1 filingthrough 2021
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 2019
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 & Admin1 filingthrough 2018
Amanda MakkiK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Confidential Asst, Dept. of Army, DOD; Legal Intern, HELP Comm.; Senior Health Advisor, Rep. Fortenberry; Senior Health Adviisor, Sen. Murkowski1 filingthrough 2018
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep. Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman1 filingthrough 2015
Patrick G HeckK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief Tax Counsel, Sen Finance Comm; Senior Tax Policy ; ; Advisor, Sen Baucus; Asst Counsel to House W&M Oversight Sub1 filingthrough 2012
Steve P RobertsK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 13 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
