52 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2023 · latest filed Mar 29, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$140K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$140K
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.
Science/Technology
SCI
7 filings
$140K 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.
H.R. 1145111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3598111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5325112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 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: water-innovations-alliance.
112th Congress
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013
1 filingthrough 2012
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.
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2012
Steve P RobertsK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2010
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2012
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2012
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2012
George KochK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2012
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filingthrough 2012
Ginger NiemannK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LA, Sen Brownback; Intern, Sen Roberts1 filingthrough 2012
Scott T BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: SA, LC, Asst. Press Sec. & Press Secretary for Rep. Inslee1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
