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.
Defense
DEF
82 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
5 filings
$360K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1540112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2011
S. 981112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2011
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
WILLIAM L BALL iiiWilliam Ball37 filingsthrough 2020
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 Seymour7 filingsthrough 2012
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Congressman Norm Dicks ; ; Legislative Aide, Congresswoman Maria Cantwell ; ; Legislative Aide, Congressman Al Swift
The filings
The 20 most recent of 89 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: ge-aviation.
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.
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
2 filings
$40K 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.
7 filingsthrough 2012
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Atty., Office of GC, US DOT ; ; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee7 filingsthrough 2012
Graham HillIce Miller Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Director & Sr. Counsel, House Transportation & Infrastructure6 filingsthrough 2021
Clayton HeilIce Miller Strategies LLCCovered position: Dep. Staff Director & General Counsel, Senate Appropriations6 filingsthrough 2021
Norm ColemanHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: U.S. Senate (2003-2009)6 filingsthrough 2021
Aaron S. CutlerHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, House Com. Nat Resources; Senior Advisor for Policy and Outreach, Office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (2013-2014); Deputy Policy Director, House Committee on Energy and Commerce (2009-2013)6 filingsthrough 2021
Eduardo Ivan ZapienHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Chief of Staff to US Senator Robert Menendez 2003-2008; National Outreach Director for the House Democratic Caucus (2002-2003)6 filingsthrough 2021
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Senior Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Asst Counsel, House Transp. and Infrastructure Committee6 filingsthrough 2012
Michael W SheehySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Nat. Sec. Adv., Speaker of the House of Reps. ; ; Staff Dir./Chief Coun. H. Perm Select Comm Intel ; ; Chief of Staff, Congressman Richard Neal ; ; Chief of Staff, Congressman Edward Boland5 filingsthrough 2011
Hp GoldfieldHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)4 filingsthrough 2021
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy COS, Congressman Zach Wamp ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Rick Hill ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich4 filingsthrough 2011
John Andrew MuellerIce Miller Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2020
Bernard ToonThe Ingram Group LLCCovered position: SrStaff,SenForeignRel;COSDorganBingamanBidenBradleyRoemer3 filingsthrough 2011
Robert A RussellThe Ingram Group LLC3 filingsthrough 2011
Kyle SimmonsThe Ingram Group LLC3 filingsthrough 2011
Andrew DavisSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Comm. Director, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Comm. Director, Senator John Kerry ; ; Comm. Director, Senator Ernest F. Hollings ; ; Deputy Dir., Senate Dem. Comm. Committee ; ; Radio Prod, Senate Dem. Comm. Committee ; ; Staff Assistant, Representative David Skaggs2 filingsthrough 2010
Alisa FergusonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, House Science and Technology Committee ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bart Gordon ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Brian Baird2 filingsthrough 2010
Gabriel HorwitzSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Doris Matsui ; ; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Marion Berry ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike McIntyre2 filingsthrough 2010
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack1 filingthrough 2011
Elizabeth PhillipsSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Prof Staff, Appropriations Committee1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 18 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
