12 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2012 · latest filed Jan 22, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$740K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$740K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
11 filings
$740K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5325112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2465112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3635111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
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: silicon-valley-technology-center.
2 filings
through 2010
H.R. 2354112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1436111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Sen Gramm5 filingsthrough 2010
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2012
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator3 filingsthrough 2010
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: for Scheduling and Advance, DOE3 filingsthrough 2009
