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
$100K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
8 filings
$20K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 27 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1210114th CongressOil and Gas Production and Distribution Reform Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Coast Gu Fellow, prof staff, Sen Comm Sci Tech; LD, Sen Lott10 filingsthrough 2022
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep. Johnson5 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew LeggettK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Min Ch Cnsl, Sen Energy & Natural Resources Comm; Maj Ch Cnsl, Sen Environment & Public Works Comm; Maj Deputy Ch Cnsl, Sen Environment & Public Works Comm; Policy Cnsl, Sen Republican Policy Comm; Leg Cnsl, Rep. Tim Murphy; Leg Asst, House Ag Comm3 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 37 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: texas-lng-llc.
6 filings
$10K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
3 filings
$10K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
2 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
North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015
6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20166 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 351114th CongressLNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5303114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2804114th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2848114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 4753118th CongressEnergy Permitting Reform Act of 20241 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 1314114th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
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.
John Northington
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: Advisor to the Director - Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Department of Interior
2 filingsthrough 2024
Tracy Lee LawlessK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2024
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/LC, Senator Gramm1 filingthrough 2022
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Department of Energy1 filingthrough 2022
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief, AD/CVD Regulation/Assoc Ch Cnsl, DoC, Office of Genl Cnsl; Trade Cnsl detailee from DoC to JEC; Dep Staff Dir, JEC; Sr Cnsl, Sen Schumer; Sr Cnsl/Acting Dep Staff Dir/Ch Cnsl/Dem Ch Cnsl, Sen Comm Rules & Admin1 filingthrough 2022
David WochnerK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: US Congressman1 filingthrough 2022
George RiccardoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Asst., House Transportation Committee; Senior Cong. Affairs Office, Office of the Secretary (DOT); Director of Govt. Affairs, Federal Railroad Administration; Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary, Department of Transportation1 filingthrough 2022
