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.
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: airport-minority-advisory-council.
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.
SMB
15 filings
$350K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$130K 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.
through 2018
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6984110th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2008, Part II1 filingthrough 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.
Covered position:
13 filingsthrough 2022
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee13 filingsthrough 2014
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Asst Counsel, House Transp. and Infrastructure Committee13 filingsthrough 2014
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm12 filingsthrough 2019
Sarah C Von Der LippeLaw Office of Sarah C. Von Der LippeCovered position: LA, Sen. Kennedy (1986-1990)12 filingsthrough 2011
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman11 filingsthrough 2020
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Legislative Asst, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. ; ; Summer Law Clerk, SEC ; ; Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.11 filingsthrough 2014
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Ofc of Asst Sec. for Govt Affrs, US DOT ; ; Dem. Staff Assistant, Sen. Commerce Committee ; ; Staff Assistant, Senator Mark Dayton9 filingsthrough 2014
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman8 filingsthrough 2022
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Asst Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith8 filingsthrough 2020
Nigel StephensPhoenix Strategies Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Yvette Clarke; Professional Staff - Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Legislative Assistant - Rep. Albert Wynn7 filingsthrough 2026
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Sen Lott; Professional Staff/Coast Guard Fellow, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation7 filingsthrough 2020
Gregory WillisPhoenix Strategies Inc.Covered position: Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Rep. Frederica Wilson6 filingsthrough 2026
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Putnam ; ; Policy Director, House Republican Conference ; ; Staff Director, Republican Policy Committee ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Felix Grucci ; ; Legislative Coorespondent, Senator Jon Kyl ; ; Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack4 filingsthrough 2014
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc Hastings ; ; Legislative Director, Representative Jack Metcalf ; ; Graduate Fellow, US Department of State ; ; Intern, Senator John Seymour4 filingsthrough 2013
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2020
Stephen A. MartinkoK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst, Rep Gibbons; LA, Rep Porter; Floor Debate Coord/Dir of Floor Debate, House Rep Conf; LD/Dep CoS/CoS, Rep Shuster; Dep Staff Dir, House T&I Committee3 filingsthrough 2016
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2015
Colin T. HayesSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Prof. Staff, Senate En. & Nat. Resources Cmte2 filingsthrough 2014
Darrell ConnerK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2021
Emanuel L RouvelasK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2021
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Large Case Team Coordinator, IRS; Motor Vehicle Industry Specialist, IRS; Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee1 filingthrough 2020
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski1 filingthrough 2015
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep. Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 30 of 41 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
