47 filings from 2 registrants · 2015–2025 · latest filed Oct 19, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$230K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$230K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
19 filings
$190K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$80K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1655115th CongressCapitalizing on American Methane Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2017
S. 230115th CongressCapitalizing on American Methane Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2017
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee16 filingsthrough 2024
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman15 filingsthrough 2021
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Senator Lott; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Coast Guard Fellow, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation14 filingsthrough 2020
Nicholas Leibham
The filings
The 20 most recent of 47 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: velocys-inc.
ENG
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$20K 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.
115th Congress
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018
4 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1603115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20184 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.2 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.
Holland & Knight LLP
5 filingsthrough 2022
Peter Vance NelsonK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2017
Kathleen NicholasHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Congressional and Public Affairs Intern, National Nuclear Security Administration; Staff Assistant, Senate Select Committee on Ethics3 filingsthrough 2021
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith3 filingsthrough 2018
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2017
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to Speaker of the House; Policy Director, House Majority Whip; Director of Coalition Outreach, Speaker of House; Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference2 filingsthrough 2022
Dimitrios KarakitsosHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Research Assistant, Professional Staff, Counsel, Senior Counsel, Senate Environment & Public Works Committee2 filingsthrough 2022
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2017
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2016
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 8 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
