40 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Jan 9, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$875K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$875K
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.
Richard HertlingCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Director & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee ; ; Sr. Counsel, Senate Government Affairs13 filingsthrough 2018
Michael P RalskyGlobalgr LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor, NASA; Associate Director, PPO, EOP; Special Assistant, DoD; LA, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison; LA, Sen. Tim Hutchinson; LA, Sen. Government Affairs Committee.10 filingsthrough 2017
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
The filings
The 20 most recent of 40 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: copart-inc.
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.
TRA
12 filings
$245K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Insurance
INS
1 filing
$30K 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
Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II
3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1732114th CongressComprehensive Transportation and Consumer Protection Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1550111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee9 filingsthrough 2010
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Dep. Staff Director/Gen. Counsel, US Senate7 filingsthrough 2010
