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.
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 Committee (Asst. Counsel, Hse Transp. and Infrastructure Committee)41 filingsthrough 2019
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee39 filingsthrough 2019
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLC Associate Director, Office of the Asst. Secretary for Govt. Affairs, US Department of Transportation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation; Staff Asst., Senator Mark Dayton
The filings
The 20 most recent of 125 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: fedex.
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.
TRU
68 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
63 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
58 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
33 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
28 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Postal
POS
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
4 filings
$60K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
3 filings
$45K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
3 filings
$45K 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.
118th Congress
FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024
5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7616116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1300110th CongressAviation Investment and Modernization Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8337116th CongressContinuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 8406116th CongressMaking emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2881110th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8870119th CongressBUILD America 250 Act1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 4996117th CongressOcean Shipping Reform Act of 20211 filingthrough 2022
S. 3580117th CongressOcean Shipping Reform Act of 20221 filingthrough 2022
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.
Covered position:
30 filingsthrough 2019
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.29 filingsthrough 2026
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 Committee.29 filingsthrough 2026
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC17 filingsthrough 2013
Julie HrdlickaElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transporation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation; Staff Assistant, Office of US Senate Mark Dayton.11 filingsthrough 2022
Bret ManleyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Rodney Davis 19-22; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jeff Denham 17-18; Legislative Director, Rep. Jeff Denham 11-17; Financial Services Policy Advisor, Rep. Gary Miller 08-10; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Gary Miller 07-08.10 filingsthrough 2026
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLC10 filingsthrough 2011
Brian Arthur PomperParven Pomper Strategies, Inc.Covered position: Chief Int'l Trade Counsel, Sen. Finance6 filingsthrough 2010
Scott ParvenParven Pomper Strategies, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2009
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senate3 filingsthrough 2008
Chris LeuchtenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide for the office of Senator Mark Begich, Policy Advisor & Counsel, Policy Director, Policy Director / Counsel, Counsel & Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for the office of Senator Kyrsten Sinema.2 filingsthrough 2026
Max RosenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure1 filingthrough 2019
Francine E FriedmanParven Pomper Strategies, Inc.1 filingthrough 2010
Paul FakesThe Whitaker Group, IncCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Bill Frist1 filingthrough 2008
