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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4348113th CongressTransferring Credits for College Completion Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2013
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.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc HastingsLegislative Director, Representative Jack MetcalfGraduate Fellow, US Department of StateIntern, Senator John Seymour10 filingsthrough 2013
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Policy Director, House Republican ConferenceStaff Director, Republican Policy CommitteeLegislative Director, Rep. Mario Diaz-BalartLegislative Assistant, Rep. Felix GrucciLegislative Coorespondent, Senator Jon KylStaff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack10 filingsthrough 2013
Matthew BrownSignal Group Consulting, LLC10 filingsthrough 2013
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC
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: international-mountain-biking-association.
International Mountain Biking Association — Receipts Report
9 filings
$180K 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.
Covered position: Legislative Aide, Congressman Al Swift
7 filingsthrough 2013
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Asst Counsel, Hse Transp & Infr. Committee7 filingsthrough 2013
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Leg Assistant Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich3 filingsthrough 2013
Kathleen FrangioneSignal Group Consulting, LLC2 filingsthrough 2012
Angela Becker-DippmannSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Policy Director, Senator Maria CantwellCommunications Director, Senator Maria CantwellSenior Policy Advisor, Senator Maria CantwellLegislative Assistant, Senator Maria Cantwell2 filingsthrough 2011
Alisa FergusonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Brian Baird1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.