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.
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: city-of-el-paso.
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.
ECN
13 filings
$250K on those filings
Defense
DEF
13 filings
$250K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
13 filings
$250K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$137K 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.
115th Congress
21st Century SCASDP Act
3 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1647114th CongressDeveloping a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1616113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5766113th Congress21st Century SCASDP Act2 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
S. 761113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US SEnate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee16 filingsthrough 2017
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLC15 filingsthrough 2017
NOE GARCIA iiiSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist; Associate Political Director, The White House; Senior Advisor, Public Affairs, US Treasury Dept.; Public Liaison, US Treasury Dept.; LA, Rep. Kay Bailey Hutchison11 filingsthrough 2017
NOE GARCIA iiiForward GlobalCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist; Associate Political Director, The White House; Senior Advisor, Public Affairs, US Treasury Department; Public Liaison, US Treasury Department; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Kay Hutchison2 filingsthrough 2026
Micha WallesenForward Global2 filingsthrough 2026
Chandra DesaiForward Global2 filingsthrough 2026
Paul Theodore AndersonForward Global2 filingsthrough 2026
Ava CofiellForward Global2 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr2 filingsthrough 2015
