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.
Homeland Security
HOM
18 filings
$540K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$540K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 27 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 600117th CongressDrone Integration and Zoning Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5202117th CongressTo require the Department of Defense to revise the system used for categorizing unmanned aircraft systems, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2022
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.19 filingsthrough 2024
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 Committtee.19 filingsthrough 2024
Julie HrdlickaElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transporation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation; Staff Assistant, Office of US Senate Mark Dayton.11 filingsthrough 2022
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: association-for-unmanned-vehicles-systems-intl.
18 filings
$540K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
18 filings
$540K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
18 filings
$540K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
13 filings
$390K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$240K 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.
116th Congress
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2019
5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Max RosenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Research Asst., Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.11 filingsthrough 2022
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.7 filingsthrough 2024
Tyler HardyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. John Hoeven.5 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
