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
13 filings
$350K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
12 filings
$350K 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. 2824118th CongressFIGDA Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8282117th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer14 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew Hillerich TablerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs11 filingsthrough 2025
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. George Nethercutt, Jr.10 filingsthrough 2025
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: unlock-aid-coalition.
spend on filings that named this issue
117th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
1 filingthrough 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.
8 filings
through 2025
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP8 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 Administration7 filingsthrough 2025
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2024
Bruce HeimanK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2024
Leonard BickwitK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2025
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2022
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2022
Eugene ShestakovK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Dan Sullivan4 filingsthrough 2022
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 & Advance3 filingsthrough 2024
Michael DoyleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2024
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2022
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski3 filingsthrough 2022
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2024
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Trent Lott2 filingsthrough 2024
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper2 filingsthrough 2024
Joseph TrahernK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff Rep. Bob Matsui; Chief of Staff Rep. Doris Matsui2 filingsthrough 2024
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2022
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2022
Jamie JacksonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sr Col, Rep. Steny Hoyer; Sr Col, DOJ; Scty Clr Col, OPP; Dep Gen Col, HASC; Staff Lead, Subc on Oversight and Investig and Col, HASC; Spec Asst to the Asst Sec of Def for Leg Affairs DOD; Natl Scty Dir, OPP; Leg Asst, Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson1 filingthrough 2024
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2023
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall1 filingthrough 2023
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 16 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
