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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
72 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
58 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 34 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4016111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.Con.Res. 312111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1409
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLC42 filingsthrough 2019
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee41 filingsthrough 2019
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee,; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Asst. Counsel, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee (Asst. Counsel, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee)41 filingsthrough 2019
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLC Associate Director, Office of the Asst. Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transportation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation; Staff Asst., Office of the US Senator Mark Dayton
The filings
The 20 most recent of 87 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: american-trucking-association.
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.
57 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
46 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
26 filings
$930K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
18 filings
$980K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
17 filings
$910K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$220K on those filings
Veterans
VET
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$70K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$60K 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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1618111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S.Con.Res. 70111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1374117th CongressEnhancing State Energy Security Planning and Emergency Preparedness Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
S. 659117th CongressDRIVE Safe Act5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4364114th CongressEnd of Debtor's Prison Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
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:
33 filingsthrough 2019
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 2023
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.17 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.17 filingsthrough 2023
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House16 filingsthrough 2013
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.11 filingsthrough 2015
Julie HrdlickaElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transportation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation; Staff Assistant, Office of US Senate Mark Dayton.10 filingsthrough 2022
Colin ChapmanChapman Capitol Consulting, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2010
Peter Anthony DefazioDefazio and Associates Consulting LLC7 filingsthrough 2025
Jack Macgregor CampbellLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee; General Counsel,Senate Finance Committee; Legislative Director, Sen. MariaCantwell; Tax Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Sen. BlancheLincoln5 filingsthrough 2016
Glynda Ann BeckerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House5 filingsthrough 2010
Tyler HardyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. John Hoeven.4 filingsthrough 2023
Mike BurnsideElevate Government Affairs, LLC4 filingsthrough 2022
George RiccardoSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure4 filingsthrough 2018
Nadeam ElshamiSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS, Dem.Ldr Nancy Pelosi; Comms.Dir/Sr. Adv., Dem.Ldr Nancy Pelosi; Dep. Comms. Dir/Sr. Adv., Speaker Pelosi; Sr. Comms. Adv./Dep. Comms. Dir/Spokesman, Senator Dick Durbin; Dep. CoS/Comms Dir, Congresswoman Schakowsky; Dep Press Sec, Senator Boxer3 filingsthrough 2018
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLC3 filingsthrough 2014
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senate2 filingsthrough 2008
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack1 filingthrough 2012
Menda FifeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 21 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
