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.
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: trueblue-inc.
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.
HCR
55 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
30 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Banking
BAN
23 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Education
EDU
18 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
15 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Unemployment
UNM
1 filing
$110K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
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 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.
115th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
H.R. 2754114th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the work opportunity credit permanent.2 filingsthrough 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.
K&L Gates, LLP
Covered position: Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Sen Fin Comm
45 filingsthrough 2025
Karishma Shah PageK&L Gates, LLP44 filingsthrough 2025
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: GC/LD, Sen R. Smith36 filingsthrough 2021
Roger MorseK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sr Policy Analyst, Republican Study Committee4 filingsthrough 2008
Darrell ConnerK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Dep Director for Scheduling & Advance, DOE3 filingsthrough 2019
Emanuel L RouvelasK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2008
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer2 filingsthrough 2025
Ryan CarneyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom MacArthur; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bryan Steil; Staff Director, House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth; Senior Advisor, Committee on House Administration2 filingsthrough 2025
Bruce HeimanK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2024
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2018
Victoria K. HamschoK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2016
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman2 filingsthrough 2015
Judson GreifK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2015
Britt Julia SandlerK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 15 of 34 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
