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.
Transportation
TRA
18 filings
$560K 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. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Sen Lott; Prof Staff/Coast Guard Fellow, Sen Comm onCommerce, Science & Transportation20 filingsthrough 2015
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: tranben-limited.
112th Congress
To suspend temporarily the rate of duty on Fluoroalkyl acrylic copolymerisates dispersed in water.
2 filingsthrough 2012
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 2015
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith2 filingsthrough 2015
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen Subcom on Educ, Arts & Humanities2 filingsthrough 2014
Patrick G HeckK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sen Baucus; Asst Counsel to Oversight Subcomm,House Ways and Means Committee2 filingsthrough 2011
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski1 filingthrough 2015
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2012
John GodfreyK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2012
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2012
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senate Finance Comm1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 10 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
