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
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 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: spire-subsidiary-inc-f-k-a-spire-global-inc.
2 filings
$110K 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.
117th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20222 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4505117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20222 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20212 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7667116th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20212 filingsthrough 2020
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: Staff Assistant, Senator Dan Sullivan
4 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 & Advance2 filingsthrough 2021
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Trent Lott1 filingthrough 2021
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2021
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer1 filingthrough 2021
Doug HallK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
