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.
Foreign Relations
FOR
9 filings
$270K 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.
S. 624111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2030111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1524111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3081111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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: water-advocates.
S. 3676111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5501110th CongressTom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7180110th CongressSenator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Enhancement Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Steven Richards Valentine
K&L Gates, LLP
9 filingsthrough 2010
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2010
Emanuel L RouvelasK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2010
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2010
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2010
Steve P RobertsK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2010
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2010
Chad SeeK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Sen Rockefeller3 filingsthrough 2010
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S Congressman3 filingsthrough 2010
George KochK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2010
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Rep Upton3 filingsthrough 2009
Roger MorseK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2008
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2010
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2010
EDWARD CHARLES OLIVARES jrK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2008
