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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$580K 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
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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: u-s-global-leadership-coalition-f-k-a-u-s-global-leadership-campaign.
116th Congress
The Heroes Act
3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4346117th CongressCHIPS and Science Act2 filingsthrough 2022
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.
through 2022
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman12 filingsthrough 2022
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer9 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman8 filingsthrough 2022
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman8 filingsthrough 2021
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm7 filingsthrough 2021
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall4 filingsthrough 2022
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2022
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator3 filingsthrough 2020
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Atty/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 & Admin3 filingsthrough 2020
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sen. Byron Dorgan - Asst. Chief of Staff, Leg, Assistant, Dep. Chief of Staff; Dept. of Energy - Deputy Director of Scheduling & Advance2 filingsthrough 2023
Karishma Shah PageK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2020
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper1 filingthrough 2022
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, DoE; Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Abraham1 filingthrough 2021
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 13 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
