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.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
13 filings
$270K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$160K 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 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5342119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20264 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2354119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20264 filingsthrough 2026
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: seafood-harvesters-of-america.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act
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.
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2015
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 & Advance1 filingthrough 2018
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2018
Steve P RobertsK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2015
Andrew J. NewhartK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern/LA, House Committee on Homeland Security; Scheduler/Office Manager, Rep Weiner1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
