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
41 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
41 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: starbucks-coffee-corp.
CIV
37 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
29 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
23 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Veterans
VET
22 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Education
EDU
18 filings
$900K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$580K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
10 filings
$480K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
8 filings
$400K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$400K 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.
114th Congress
AGOA Enhancement Act of 2015
6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1115th CongressAn 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. 4411117th CongressUpskilling and Retraining Assistance Act1 filingthrough 2022
S. 1802117th CongressUpskilling and Retraining Assistance Act1 filingthrough 2022
S. 3521112th CongressFamily and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 759111th 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.
32 filingsthrough 2020
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLP25 filingsthrough 2017
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP22 filingsthrough 2019
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP21 filingsthrough 2023
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer4 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 24 of 50 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
