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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$1.7M 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' 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: vanguard-charitable.
117th Congress
ACE Act
4 filingsthrough 2022
H.Con.Res. 14119th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 8783119th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income charitable distributions from certain employer-sponsored retirement plans, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 6595118th CongressSmith River National Recreation Area Expansion Act1 filingthrough 2023
S. 1981118th CongressIranian Enrichment Monitoring Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
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.
Lauren E. HammaK&L Gates, LLP
12 filingsthrough 2024
Tracy Lee LawlessK&L Gates, LLP8 filingsthrough 2025
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Senator Gramm8 filingsthrough 2023
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer7 filingsthrough 2026
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
Vivian BridgesK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Rep Bill Foster; Law Clerk, Sen Jon Ossoff/Sen Judiciary Cmte5 filingsthrough 2026
Victoria K. HamschoK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2023
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 2023
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2022
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2022
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 10 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
