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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
41 filings
$3M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1643114th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 851114th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
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: download-fairness-coalition.
$300K
fees reported
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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.
115th Congress
FEAA
5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 851115th CongressStop Tax Haven Abuse Act5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3724113th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1364113th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1860112th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 971112th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1725116th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
S. 765116th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
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.
through 2019
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.20 filingsthrough 2016
Samuel WhitehornElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee.11 filingsthrough 2021
Max RosenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.11 filingsthrough 2021
Robert William ChamberlinElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Assistant Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committtee.11 filingsthrough 2021
Glynda Ann BeckerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House4 filingsthrough 2012
Max RosenSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure3 filingsthrough 2019
Matthew Lee JohnsonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel & Counsel to Senator John Cornyn3 filingsthrough 2014
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc Hastings ; ; Legislative Director, Representative Jack Metcalf ; ; Graduate Fellow, US Department of State ; ; Intern, Senator John Seymour3 filingsthrough 2011
Rick DesimoneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Patty Murray ; ; GSA, Special Asst to Regional Admin., Reg. 103 filingsthrough 2011
Gabriel HorwitzSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike McIntyre2 filingsthrough 2012
