18 filings from 3 registrants · 2009–2013 · latest filed Jan 22, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$724K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$724K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Railroads
RRR
18 filings
$724K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$600K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2610113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5972112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Paul DoerrerThe Doerrer Group LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Jim Talent12 filingsthrough 2013
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 Seymour5 filingsthrough 2010
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Acting Staff Director, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Sr. Atty., Office of GC, US DOT5 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: general-electric-transportation.
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.
12 filings
$510K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$90K 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.
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3288111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3644111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1473112th CongressDepartment of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3288112th CongressSafeguarding United States Satellite Leadership and Security Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 652112th CongressBuilding and Upgrading Infrastructure for Long-Term Development1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed 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.
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Senior Counsel, Senate Commerce ; ; Assistant Counsel, House Transport. & Infrastruct. Committee
5 filingsthrough 2010
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Patty Murray ; ; Legislative Assistant, Representative Jim McDermott3 filingsthrough 2010
Nicole NasonNicole NasonCovered position: Administrator, NHTSA, US DOT3 filingsthrough 2010
Glynda Ann BeckerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
