10 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Oct 18, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$145K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$145K
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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
5 filings
$125K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
4 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1303110th CongressAirline Passenger Bill of Rights Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2881110th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
Christopher BertramB+S StrategiesCovered position: Staff Director, House Transportation Comm. 2012 to 2016; A. Secretary, U.S. Dept of Transportation, 2009 to 2012; Prof. Staff, Senate Commerce Comm. 2003 to 2009; A. Administrator, FAA, 2001 to 2003; Prof. Staff, House Transportation Comm. 1996-20014 filingsthrough 2019
Elizabeth Miller SpiveyB+S StrategiesCovered position: Director of Outreach, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee 2013-2016 Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Trent Lott 1997-20074 filingsthrough 2019
Jonathan B HillDow Lohnes PLLC4 filingsthrough 2009
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLC L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc Hastings ; ; Legislative Director, Representative Jack Metcalf ; ; Graduate Fellow, US Department of State ; ; Intern, Senator John Seymour
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: hawaiian-airlines.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
Airline Passenger Bill of Rights Act of 2007
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 915111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1356110th CongressNext Generation Air Transportation System Financing Reform Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 6984110th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2008, Part II1 filingthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
S. 3183110th CongressEnd Oil Speculation Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
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:
3 filingsthrough 2010
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Sr. Atty., Office of GC, US DOT3 filingsthrough 2010
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Senior Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Asst Counsel, House Transp. and Infrastructure Committee3 filingsthrough 2010
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
