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.
Edward A MerlisMr. Edward Merlis55 filingsthrough 2026
Wesley LujanGatx Corporation9 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.7 filingsthrough 2026
Steven SchultzElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, and Legislative Counsel for the office of Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr.; Shared Staff for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 72 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: gatx-corporation.
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.
TAX
26 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$270K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$220K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
6 filings
$220K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$220K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
4 filings
$92K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
1 filing
$300K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$300K 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.
119th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8870119th CongressBUILD America 250 Act3 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3372118th CongressTo amend title 23, United States Code, to establish a safety data collection program for certain 6-axle vehicles, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8996118th CongressRailroad Safety Enhancement Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 576118th CongressRailway Safety Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684118th CongressDouglas Mike Day Psychedelic Therapy to Save Lives Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8417119th CongressKeeping China Off the Rails Act1 filingthrough 2026
S. 3903119th CongressRailway Safety Act of 20261 filingthrough 2026
S. 808114th CongressSurface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
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.
7 filingsthrough 2026
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 Denham11-17; Financial Services Policy Advisor, Rep. Gary Miller08-10; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Gary Miller 07-08.7 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.7 filingsthrough 2026
Richard James PezzellaElevate Government Affairs, LLC5 filingsthrough 2026
ROBERT BABCOCK jrAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant/Legislative Assistant, Congressman Steve King; Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison; Regional Administrator, GSA Greater Southwest Region3 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey BillmanAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ronny Jackson; Dep. Chief of Staff, Rep. Kevin Brady; Dep. Chief of Staff, Rep. Kevin Hern; Dep. Chief of Staff, Rep. Peter Roskam; Legis. Asst., Rep. Peter Roskam; Spec. Asst. to Chief Dep. Whip Peter Roskam3 filingsthrough 2026
Michelle RichardsonElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Congressman Roger F. Wicker (MS-01): Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff House Appropriations Committee: Associate staff, Congressman Roger F. Wicker US Senator Roger F. Wicker: Chief of Staff.3 filingsthrough 2026
Jack RuddyAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Sam Graves; Legislative Director, Congressman Sam Graves; Deputy Staff Director, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Staff Director, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure3 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel WhitehornElevate Government Affairs, LLC1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
