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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
6 filings
$370K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$310K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3288
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLC6 filingsthrough 2010
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC6 filingsthrough 2010
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee6 filingsthrough 2010
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Dep. Staff Director/Gen. Counsel, US Senate4 filingsthrough 2010
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: delta-air-lines-inc-and-its-subsidiary-northwest-airlines-inc-fka-delta-ai.
LBR
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$20K 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.
111th Congress
Named 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.
Casey Sixkiller
Signal Group Consulting, LLC
Covered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senate
2 filingsthrough 2008
Rick DesimoneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, US Senate2 filingsthrough 2008
