45 filings from 1 registrant · 2011–2022 · latest filed Dec 16, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$1.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.7M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
36 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
35 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 31 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1733116th CongressCHANCE in TECH Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1643114th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS, Rep. Adam Putnam; Policy Director, House Rep. Conference; Staff Director, Rep. Policy Committee; LD, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart; LA, Rep. Felix Grucci; LC, Senator Jon Kyl; Staff Asst., Senator Connie Mack49 filingsthrough 2022
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior LA, Congressman Michael Capuano; LA, Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick36 filingsthrough 2019
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Asst. Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee20 filingsthrough 2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 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: comptia-member-services-llc.
TAX
34 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
32 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Education
EDU
30 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
30 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
30 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
26 filings
$950K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
18 filings
$720K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
8 filings
$290K on those filings
Veterans
VET
7 filings
$280K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$190K 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.
114th Congress
Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1725116th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3174115th CongressCHANCE in TECH Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 754114th CongressAn act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 803113th CongressWorkforce Innovation and Opportunity Act4 filingsthrough 2013
S. 183113th CongressHospital Payment Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4459116th CongressSecure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 20193 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.
Clare AdamsSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Intern, International Trade Association
8 filingsthrough 2017
Charles Al MoskowitzSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Policy Counsel, Dem. Minority Staff, Senate Homeland & Govt. Affairs Committee; Leg. Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Subcommittee on Financial & Contracting Oversight, Senate Homeland Sec. & Govt. Affairs Comm; LA, Rep. John Tierney7 filingsthrough 2021
Greg GarciaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Assistant Secretary, Cyber Security and Communications, US Department of Homeland Security; Professional Staff, Committee on Science, US House of Representatives7 filingsthrough 2017
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc Hastings; Legislative Director, Representative Jack Metcalf6 filingsthrough 2017
Matthew Lee JohnsonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel & Counsel to Senator John Cornyn6 filingsthrough 2014
George RiccardoSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure5 filingsthrough 2018
Sarah HamlettSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Drake; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Schrock4 filingsthrough 2020
Emily RollmanSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Intern, National Archives2 filingsthrough 2021
Langston EmersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior LA, Congressman Michael Capuano; LA, Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick2 filingsthrough 2016
Gabriel HorwitzSignal Group Consulting, LLC2 filingsthrough 2012
Kathy MitchellSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Policy Adv/Deputy COS, Rep. Tim Mahoney ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dan Boren2 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.1 filingthrough 2015
Kathleen FrangioneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Foreign Relations Committee ; ; Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committ. ; ; Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator John Kerry1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 15 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
