33 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2017 · latest filed Oct 16, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$310K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$310K
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.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
23 filings
$310K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$70K 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 912113th CongressTelevision Consumer Freedom Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3719113th CongressVideo CHOICE Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
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: starz-llc.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Next Generation Television Marketplace Act
5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1084111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3101111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2454113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2799113th CongressSatellite Television Access and Viewer Rights Act2 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3675112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2008112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3304111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3828111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
2 filingsthrough 2014
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senator Smith1 filingthrough 2014
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Barton; CoS, Rep Stockman; LD, Rep Wicker1 filingthrough 2012
Bruce HeimanK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Christopher HopfenspergerK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Cresencio S ArcosK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Denise GitshamK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Emanuel L RouvelasK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
