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.
Computer Industry
CPI
17 filings
$850K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
17 filings
$850K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
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.19 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.12 filingsthrough 2026
Allison NyholmElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor for Sen. Lisa Murkowski.9 filingsthrough 2026
Tyler Hardy
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: applied-digital.
12 filings
$600K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$100K 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.
Elevate Government Affairs, LLC
Covered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. John Hoeven.
9 filingsthrough 2024
Kelly LugarElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy.8 filingsthrough 2023
Bret ManleyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Rodney Davis 19-22; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jeff Denham 17-18; Legislative Director, Rep. Jeff Denham 11-17; Financial Services Policy Advisor, Rep. Gary Miller 08-10;Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Gary Miller 07-08.5 filingsthrough 2026
Richard James PezzellaElevate Government Affairs, LLC5 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher LeahyElevate Government Affairs, LLC1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
