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.
Utilities
UTI
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3442111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3495111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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: better-place-inc.
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
5 filings
$220K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
2 filings
$90K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$40K 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.
Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013
1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4853112th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on Methoxycarbonyl-terminated perfluorinated polyoxymethylene-polyoxyethylene.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
6 filingsthrough 2010
Gabriel HorwitzSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike McIntyre5 filingsthrough 2011
Holland PattersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy White House Liaison for DOD4 filingsthrough 2010
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Assistant Counsel, House Trans and Infast. Com3 filingsthrough 2011
Shannon O'KeefeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Resrch Analyst, Asst Sec. Plan. and Eval., HHS2 filingsthrough 2010
Jill Shapiro LongSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Mikulski2 filingsthrough 2009
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LA, Representative Jim McDermott2 filingsthrough 2009
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Atty., Office of GC, US DOT2 filingsthrough 2009
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LA, Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich2 filingsthrough 2009
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack1 filingthrough 2011
Kathleen FrangioneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Office of Senator John Kerry1 filingthrough 2011
Rick DesimoneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Patty Murray ; ; GSA, Special Asst to Regional Administrator, Region 101 filingthrough 2009
