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
12 filings
$490K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$480K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3001110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 filingsthrough 2008
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc Hastings ; ; Legislative Director, Representative Jack Metcalf ; ; Graduate Fellow, US Department of State ; ; Intern, Senator John Seymour13 filingsthrough 2012
Rick DesimoneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: GSA, Special Asst to Regional Admin., Reg. 1012 filingsthrough 2012
Holland PattersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy White House Liaison for DOD8 filingsthrough 2011
Shannon O'KeefeSignal 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: j-m-martinac-shipbuilding-corporation.
MAR
8 filings
$310K 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.
110th Congress
Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009
2 filingsthrough 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: Prof. Staff Homeland Security Approps Subcommittee ; ; Prof. Staff Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee ; ; Research Analyst, Asst Sec. for Plan. and Eval., HHS
5 filingsthrough 2010
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Elizabeth PhillipsSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Prof Staff, Appropriations Committee3 filingsthrough 2012
Menda FifeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Pro Staff Member, Senate Defense Approp Sub3 filingsthrough 2008
Michael W SheehySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Edward Boland2 filingsthrough 2010
Paul Theodore AndersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LTC, US Army (Retired)1 filingthrough 2012
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senate1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
