19 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 21, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$730K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$730K
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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
14 filings
$530K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
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: trinity-health-fka-catholic-health-east.
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$120K 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.
112th Congress
Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013
2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3963110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3686111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
Steven Richards Valentine
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith
3 filingsthrough 2013
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2013
Britt Julia SandlerK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2010
Heather MizeurK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2008
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Rep Upton1 filingthrough 2013
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Sen Gramm1 filingthrough 2012
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 4 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
