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.
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.28 filingsthrough 2026
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.28 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.28 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: babcock-wilcox-enterprises-inc.
9 filings · 2015–2017
$270K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
TAX
16 filings
$650K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
10 filings
$350K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$340K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 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.
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.
Allison Nyholm
Elevate Government Affairs, LLC
Covered position: Policy Advisor for Sen. Lisa Murkowski May 2013-Mar 2016.
12 filingsthrough 2026
Kelly LugarElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy.12 filingsthrough 2023
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.10 filingsthrough 2022
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: DepCOS,Cong.Zach Wamp;LD,Cong.Rick Hill;LA,Cong.B.Vucanovich10 filingsthrough 2017
Leslie J. SackBabcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc.Covered position: Office of National Drug Control Policy, Policy Asst. (2003-2005); White House, Office of the Staff Secretary, Asst. Staff Secretary (2005-2007); U.S. Dept of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Senior Advisor (2007-2009)10 filingsthrough 2017
Tyler HardyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. John Hoeven.9 filingsthrough 2024
David Alexander MartenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Denny Heck; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Denny Heck.8 filingsthrough 2024
Christopher LeahyElevate Government Affairs, LLC1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 10 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
