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.
Steven SchultzElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, SeniorLegislative Assistant, and Legislative Counsel for the office of Rep. Donald M.Payne, Jr.; Shared Staff for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-warehouse-logistics-association.
fees reported
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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.
68 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
68 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
63 filings
$2M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
62 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
62 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
62 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
59 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
57 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
54 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
30 filings
$690K 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.
118th Congress
To amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.
9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1108118th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
S. 420118th CongressCOVID–19 Vaccination Non-Discrimination Act9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2700118th CongressEmployee Rights Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4470118th CongressProtecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2071118th CongressReliable Rail Service Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1381117th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 420117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 480117th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 659117th CongressDRIVE Safe Act8 filingsthrough 2022
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.
15 filingsthrough 2026
David Alexander MartenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Legislative Assistant, Sen. MariaCantwell; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Denny Heck; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Denny Heck.15 filingsthrough 2026
Bret ManleyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Rodney Davis 19-22; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jeff Denham 17-18;Legislative Director, Rep. Jeff Denham 11-17; Financial Services Policy Advisor,Rep. Gary Miller 08-10; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Gary Miller 07-08.15 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.15 filingsthrough 2026
Dane Lawrence FarrellKent & O'Connor, Inc.13 filingsthrough 2021
Robert William ChamberlinElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Assistant Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.9 filingsthrough 2026
Chris LeuchtenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide for the office of Senator Mark Begich, Policy Advisor & Counsel, Policy Director, Policy Director / Counsel, Counsel & Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for the office of Senator Kyrsten Sinema. (No Senate)5 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel WhitehornElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee.4 filingsthrough 2026
Michelle RichardsonElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Congressman Roger F. Wicker (MS-01): Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff House Appropriations Committee: Associate staff, Congressman Roger F. Wicker US Senator Roger F. Wicker: Chief of Staff. (No Senate)4 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
