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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
21 filings
$260K on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$10K 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. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20143 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
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: xf-technologies-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015
3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4870113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3254112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3800111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1540112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2012
S. 1253112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 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.
K&L Gates, LLP
8 filingsthrough 2010
EDWARD CHARLES OLIVARES jrK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: USSOCOM Legislative Liaison4 filingsthrough 2008
Denise GitshamK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2014
