198 filings from 14 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed May 6, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$5.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$5.4M
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.
Navigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)
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: alliance-of-automobile-manufacturers.
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.
40 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
32 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
26 filings
$990K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
23 filings
$520K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
22 filings
$880K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
21 filings
$990K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
17 filings
$540K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
10 filings
$290K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$380K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
5 filings
$250K 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.
10 filings
through 2016
S. 921113th CongressRaechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLC20 filingsthrough 2014
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Dep. Staff Director/Gen Counsel, US Senate20 filingsthrough 2014
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrFti Government AffairsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs17 filingsthrough 2016
Jefferies MurrayFti Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff to Congressman Bud Cramer17 filingsthrough 2016
Gordon Hunter Hunter BatesRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellLegal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellChief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee17 filingsthrough 2016
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC17 filingsthrough 2013
Erika Z JonesMayer Brown LLP17 filingsthrough 2013
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrC2 Group, LLC16 filingsthrough 2013
Johanna PolsenbergCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Senior Leg Asst Cong Udall; Fellow Cong Farr13 filingsthrough 2010
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLC12 filingsthrough 2014
Gordon Hunter BatesAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Sen. McConnell, 2000-02; Legal Cnsl, Sen. McConnell, 1999-00; Chief Cnsl, Senate Rules Committee, 1997-99.11 filingsthrough 2019
Lesley ElliottC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Senate11 filingsthrough 2012
Martin RussoCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Member of Congress11 filingsthrough 2010
Justin MccarthyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Spec. Asst to Pres for leg affairs, exec ofc of pres, jan08-dec08; asst. USTR for congress. affairs, exec. Offc of pres, jan06-dec07; asst. USTR for intergov. & pub affairs, exec offc of pres, sep05-may06; leg asst, rep Thomas w. ewing, jan96-jul98.10 filingsthrough 2020
Lauren O'BrienRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisLegislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisLegislative Correspondent, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisStaff Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisIntern, Office of Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner10 filingsthrough 2016
Christopher BertramB+S StrategiesCovered position: Staff Director, House Transportation Comm. 2012 to 2016; A. Secretary, U.S. Dept of Transportation, 2009 to 2012; Prof. Staff, Senate Commerce Comm. 2003 to 2009; A. Administrator, FAA, 2001 to 2003; Prof. Staff, House Transportation Comm. 1996-20019 filingsthrough 2018
Elizabeth Miller SpiveyB+S StrategiesCovered position: Director of Outreach, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee 2013-2016 Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Trent Lott 1997-20079 filingsthrough 2018
Sarah (Beatty) RogersNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Pat Meehan8 filingsthrough 2019
Ado Antony MachidaNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)8 filingsthrough 2018
Chase W HienemanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Int, Sen. McConnell, May-June 2010.7 filingsthrough 2019
G Hunter BatesC2 Group, LLC7 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 45 of 65 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
