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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$960K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
26 filings
$900K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 34 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3746118th CongressFiscal Responsibility Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.28 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel WhitehornElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee.17 filingsthrough 2026
Steven SchultzElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, and Legislative Counsel for the office of Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr.; Shared Staff for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.16 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: aecom-technical-services-inc.
AVI
14 filings
$520K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
14 filings
$460K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
8 filings
$310K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$80K 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.
118th Congress
FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024
5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20245 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20264 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20264 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7575116th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20203 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7616116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2020
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.
David Alexander MartenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Legislative Assistant, Sen. MariaCantwell; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Denny Heck; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Denny Heck.
4 filingsthrough 2026
Robert William ChamberlinElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Assistant Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.2 filingsthrough 2026
Chris LeuchtenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide for the office of Senator Mark Begich, Policy Advisor & Counsel, Policy Director, Policy Director / Counsel, Counsel & Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for the office of Senator Kyrsten Sinema.2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
