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.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
15 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$190K 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 — 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. 2830110th CongressTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2838112th CongressCoast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
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-maritime-coalition.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1665112th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2012 and 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3216112th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3534111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5585111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3512111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3525111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 152113th CongressMaking supplemental appropriations for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2013, to improve and
streamline disaster assistance for Hurricane
Sandy, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 3619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1194111th 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.
Emanuel L Rouvelas
K&L Gates, LLP
8 filingsthrough 2013
William MyhreK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2012
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman (NOTE: Executive Branch Only)4 filingsthrough 2013
Chad SeeK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Senators Murray and Rockefeller2 filingsthrough 2012
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith2 filingsthrough 2012
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Dep.COS, Cong Saxton; Leg Dir Cong. Davis2 filingsthrough 2008
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2013
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2012
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Control Policy, EOP1 filingthrough 2012
