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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$480K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
2 filings
$260K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2814114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2016
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator4 filingsthrough 2016
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg cnsl to Rep Northup, 1999; leg cnsl to Rep Inglis, 1997-99; legal intern to Spkr Gingrich4 filingsthrough 2016
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-india-security-council-inc.
fees reported
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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.
2 filings
$260K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$260K 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.
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith4 filingsthrough 2016
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski4 filingsthrough 2016
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman4 filingsthrough 2016
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman4 filingsthrough 2016
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld4 filingsthrough 2016
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Press Secy, Dep Press Secy to Sen Inhofe4 filingsthrough 2016
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-04; Leg Cnsl, Sen Leahy, 1993-964 filingsthrough 2016
Bruce HeimanK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2016
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm3 filingsthrough 2016
Karishma Shah PageK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2016
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2016
Michael O'NeilK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Counselor to Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, DOD; Chief of Staff, CIA; General Counsel, CIA2 filingsthrough 2016
Darrell ConnerK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2016
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2016
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2016
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman2 filingsthrough 2016
Anne LemayK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LA/Dir of Def & For Affairs, Rep McHugh; Prof Staff, House Armed Svces Comm; Spec Asst/CoS to Secty of Army2 filingsthrough 2016
John MchughK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman; Secretary of the U. S. Army2 filingsthrough 2016
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2016
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Office of the Speaker; General Counsel, Committee on House Oversight; Minority Counsel, Committee on House Administration1 filingthrough 2016
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson1 filingthrough 2016
Stephen A. MartinkoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Rep Gibbons; LA, Rep Porter; Floor Debate Coord/Dir of Floor Debate, House Rep Conf; LD/Dep CoS/CoS, Rep Shuster; Dep Staff Dir, House T&I Committee1 filingthrough 2016
Bill PaxonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Mbr of Cong, 1989-991 filingthrough 2015
Arshi SiddiquiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sr pol adv & cnsl for Spkr Pelosi, Oct 03-May 09; Ways & Means cnsl, Rep Becerra, 1998-May 00; pol aide, Rep Clayton, Oct 97-Jan 981 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 19 of 28 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
