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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$130K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$130K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, US House of Rep.5 filingsthrough 2009
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House5 filingsthrough 2009
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: imperium-renewables-formerly-known-as-seattle-biodiesel.
4 filings
$110K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$10K 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.
H.R. 5351110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5357110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on certain lighting control timers.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1424111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery 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.
3 filingsthrough 2009
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senate1 filingthrough 2008
Menda FifeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Pro Staff Member, Senate Defense Approp Sub1 filingthrough 2008
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, US House of Rep.1 filingthrough 2008
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 8 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
