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.
Aerospace
AER
24 filings
$680K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$140K 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 26 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2800116th CongressNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 20205 filingsthrough 2020
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: redwire-space-inc-f-k-a-made-in-space.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2020
4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2809115th CongressAmerican Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4505117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8256117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3267115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5952115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1662115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3072115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4543117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20232 filingsthrough 2022
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.
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall
5 filingsthrough 2022
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith4 filingsthrough 2022
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm4 filingsthrough 2020
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director/ Chief of Staff, Rep. George Nethercutt, Jr.3 filingsthrough 2022
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2019
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2019
Doug HallK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2020
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2017
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman2 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2022
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 Transportation1 filingthrough 2022
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 11 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
