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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5766114th CongressAmerasian Paternity Recognition Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 684114th CongressNon-Disparagement of Native American Persons or Peoples in Trademark Registration Act of 20154 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: greater-el-paso-chamber-of-commerce.
Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce — Receipts Report
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
2 filings
$20K 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.
114th Congress
Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act
2 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; Associate Political Director, The White House; Senior Advisor, Public Affairs, US Treasury Department; Public Liaison, US Treasury Department; LA, Rep. Kay Bailey Hutchison
5 filingsthrough 2016
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 Committee4 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 5 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
