LegiStorm: Transparency's Sidekick

Congressional staffers are featured on our "notable staffer disclosures" pages if they have disclosures that met certain criteria. We spotlight work on campaigns, prior or current work for interest groups, gifts received, certain positions held and other matters. For more details, see under "Data entry" on our About Financial Disclosures page.

• • Lackey, Miles M

    Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Campaign Work:	John Edwards for President, $18,000

    2008 Report Notes:
    Campaign Work:	John Edwards for President, $18,000 in 2008, $81,500 in 2007
    Positions Held:	Quorum Strategies LLC, partner; Center for Promise and Opportunity Foundation, board member; John Edwards for President Committee, director; Center for Promise and Opportunity, officer
    Compensation >$5,000:	John Edwards for President; Quorum Strategies LLC; Center for Promise and Opportunity; King Hussein Foundation; Markle Foundation

    2007 Report Notes:
    Prior Employment:	Quorum Strategies LLC, $103,143
    Positions Held:	Quorum Strategies LLC, partner, separated Jan. 1, 2007

     

  • Lafuente, Cynthia

    Joint Committee on Taxation

    2009 Report Notes:
    Prior Employment:	Abbott Labs, wages, $445,707
    Positions Held:	Tax Coalition, director

    2008 Report Notes:
    Prior Employment:	Abbott Labs, $30,230 in 2008, $304,115 in 2007
    Positions Held:	Abbott Labs, divisional vice president and general tax counsel; Chicago Finance Exchange, director

     

  • Lake, Harry E III

    Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Coca Cola Enterprises
    Campaign Work:	Westmoreland for Congress, $9,000; ACTON PAC, $1,500

    2008 Report Notes:
    Campaign Work:	Westmoreland for Congress, $4,000

    2007 Report Notes:
    Campaign Work:	Westmoreland for Congress

     

  • Lamel, Joshua S

    Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL)

    2008 Report Notes:
    Agreements:	Employment agreement to be vice president of Information Technology Association of America beginning April 15, 2008.

    2007 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Congressional Management Foundation; Corporate Executive Board
    Positions Held:	Swidler Berlin LLP, associate

     

  • Lancaster, Samuel G

    Rep. Thomas Reynolds (R-NY)

    2008 Report Notes:
    Agreements:	Employment agreement to become senior director of federal government affiars, Comcast Corp.

     

  • Lane, Jeffrey A

    Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Neimand Collaborative

    2008 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Neimand Collaborative

     

  • Lari, Rita G

    Senate Judiciary Committee

    2009 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Mayer Brown LLP; Jochum Shore and Trossevin PIECE

    2008 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Mayer Brown LLP; Black Swan LLC

     

  • Lariviere, James M

    House Veterans' Affairs Committee

    2008 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Organizational Strategies Inc.

     

  • Larrabee, Jill C

    Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)

    2007 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	E.F. Larrabee and Associates

     

  • Larson, Elizabeth A

    House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

    2006 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Booz Allen Hamilton
    Earned Income:	Booz Allen Hamilton, $11,423

     

  • Laster, Gail W

    House Financial Services Committee

    2009 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	Mid Atlantic Innocence Project, board member

    2008 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, board member

    2007 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Jenner and Block, partnership income
    Positions Held:	Mid-Atlantic Legal Innocence Project, board member

     

  • Lautrup, Robert W

    House Appropriations Committee

    2007 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Sidley Austin LLP (partner)

     

  • Lawrence, Brian Edward

    House Veterans' Affairs Committee

    2008 Report Notes:
    Prior Employment:	Disabled American Veterans, $60,000

    2007 Report Notes:
    Prior Employment:	Disabled American Veterans, $60,000 in 2007; $120,000 in 2006

     

  • Lawson, Anita Savage

    Rep. John Larson (D-CT)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Earned Income:	Verbatim Data Services, home-based business providing administrative services, $1,000

     

  • Layman, Lisa K

    Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)

    2007 Report Notes:
    Agreements:	Employment agreement with Generic Phamaceutical Association to become associate vice president of federal affairs and policy. Terms of agreement include salary between $100,001-$250,000.

     

  • Le, Ricky Xuan

    Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Earned Income:	Grassroots Campaigns Inc., campaign work in 2004, $637
    Agreements:	Ricky Le and Gavin Newsom campaign, will be campaign political director beginning June 15, 2009

     

  • Leavandosky, Stacey E

    Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	California State Society, executive board

     

  • Lefrancois, Ronald J

    Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Prior Employment:	New York Life, salary and deferred income, $395,000

     

  • Lehman, Michael F

    Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Campaign Work:	Paul Tonko for Congress Committee, salary, $23,885, miscellaneous income, $12,500, 2008; Kryzan for Congress Committee, salary, $7,000, 2008; Hillary Clinton for President Committee, $360, 2008
    Positions Held:	Duck for Congress, finance director
    Compensation >$5,000:	Duck for Congress, campaign finance director, 2007

     

  • Lenox, Steven D

    Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	Democrats 2000, political action committee, board member

    2007 Report Notes:
    Prior Employment:	Fairview Insurance Associates, business consulting

     

• • Leonard, Joe F

    Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI)

    2007 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	Black Leadership Forum Inc., executive director

     

  • Leone, Katherine C

    Senate Majority Leader

    2009 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Goodwin Procter LLP; White and Case LLP

    2008 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Goodwin Procter LLP

    2007 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Goodwin Procter LLP

     

  • Leopold, Patrick R

    Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Family Service and Guidance Center
    Campaign Work:	Lynn Jenkins for Congess, $73,500, 2008

     

  • Lesofski, Emelyn F

    Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Poker Players Alliance, Feb. 15-Dec. 31, 2008; District Strategies, Jan. 1-Feb. 14, 2008

     

  • Lessen, Ramona J

    Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN)

    2008 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	America's Health Insurance Plans

    2007 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	American's Health Insurance Plans
    Gifts:	Health Sectory Assembly, Roundtrip airfare to Salt Lake City (accompanied spouse to a conference), $450

     

  • LesStrang, David M

    House Appropriations Committee

    2009 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (long-term care policy consultant), January-April 2008; Foundation for the Future of Aging, July 2008-present

    2008 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging

     

  • Lester, Dean A

    Rep. Bobby Bright (D-AL)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	Turtle Creek Chorale, trustee, endowment fund; M-Cubed Investment Club, vice president

     

  • Lester, Stephanie H

    House Ways and Means Committee

    2006 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	Washington International Trade Association, director (unpaid)

     

  • LeTourneau, Matthew F

    Senate Resolution and Reorganization Reserve

    2009 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Heritage Foundation, contract services, $2,625

     

  • Lettre, Marcel J

    Senate Majority Leader

    2008 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Education Resource Strategies, consulting

     

  • Levesque, Neil

    Rep. Charles Bass (R-NH)

    2006 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Demers Group, $10,834

     

  • Levine, Amy L

    Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	Federal Communications Bar Association's Legislation Committee, co-chair; Young Founders Society of the Foundation for the National Archives, steering committee member

     

  • Levit, Roman

    Rep. John Barrow (D-GA)

    2007 Report Notes:
    Campaign Work:	Friends of John Barrow, $14,166.67
    Agreements:	Roman Levit and American Israel Public Affairs Committee, full-time employment compensated at salary identical to government service

     

  • Liddiard, Evan M

    Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)

    2008 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Bruder, Gentile and Marcoux LLP; Drayton, Drayton and Lamar Inc.

     

  • Liepa, Dianne

    Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)

    2008 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	District Judicial Nominating Commission, district commission member

     

  • Lierman, Terry L

    House Office of the Majority Leader

    2009 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	Lierman Trust for Human Rights, chairman of the board

    2008 Report Notes:
    Positions Held:	Lierman Trust for Human Rights, board chair

    2007 Report Notes:
    Earned Income:	New York Life Board - Mainstay Funds 2007, directors fee, $381,371.59 in 2007, $106,000 in 2006
    Positions Held:	New York Life, director; Lierman Trust for Human Rights, board chair

     

  • Liles, Michael C

    Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-NH)

    2006 Report Notes:
    Earned Income:	Council on Food, Agriculture & Resource Economics, consulting, $1,155

     

  • Linde, Jason P

    Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL)

    2009 Report Notes:
    Earned Income:	George Washington University, adjunct faculty salary, $8,000
    Prior Employment:	Ogilvy Public Relations, $14,893

    2008 Report Notes:
    Prior Employment:	Ogilvy Public Relations, salary, $14,893 in 2008, $155,000 in 2007; George Washington University, adjunct faculty salary, $8,000 in 2008, $10,000 in 2007

     

  • Lindgren, Gary Z

    House Small Business Committee

    2007 Report Notes:
    Agreements:	Cincinnati Business Committee, executive director beginning Aug. 27, 2007

     

  • Linskey, Kevin M

    House Appropriations Committee

    2009 Report Notes:
    Spouse employment:	Curtiss-Wright Corp.

    2007 Report Notes:
    Prior Employment:	State Justice Institute, $35,377 in 2007; $130,020 in 2006
    Positions Held:	State Justice Institute, executive director