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
42 filings
$990K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$730K on those filings
Homeland Security
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 76 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 658113th CongressTo authorize and request the President to award the congressional Medal of Honor to Arthur Jibilian for actions behind enemy lines during World War II while a member of the United States Navy and the Office of Strategic Services.8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1813113th CongressEarthquake Insurance Affordability Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
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.27 filingsthrough 2026
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.27 filingsthrough 2026
John A WaitsWinston Taylor LLP (Formerly Known as Winston & Strawn LLP)23 filingsthrough 2014
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLC Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee
The filings
The 20 most recent of 67 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: jackson-municipal-airport-authority.
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.
HOM
22 filings
$590K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
22 filings
$400K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$40K 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
Choices for Stranded Passengers Act of 2023
7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2322113th CongressMAP-21 Reauthorization Act6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 658112th CongressFAA Modernization and Reform Act of 20125 filingsthrough 2012
S. 223112th CongressFAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7616117th CongressTo reduce the amount made available to the National Archives and Records Administration unless certain backlogs of the Administration are resolved, and for other purposes.4 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.
Covered position:
17 filingsthrough 2019
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Asst. Counsel, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee (Asst. Counsel, House Transp. & Infrastructure Committee)17 filingsthrough 2019
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US DoT; Dem. Staff., Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation; Staff Asst., Office of Senator Mark Dayton.17 filingsthrough 2019
Julie HrdlickaElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transportation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation; Staff Assistant, Office of US Senate Mark Dayton.11 filingsthrough 2022
Max RosenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.10 filingsthrough 2022
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)7 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior Legislative Asst., Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.; Summer Law Clerk, SEC; Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.5 filingsthrough 2016
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.2 filingsthrough 2026
James C SandbergBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Counsel, Senate EPW2 filingsthrough 2008
Mark Van De WaterBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Senate Committee on Appropriations2 filingsthrough 2008
JAMES KEITH KENNEDY srBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Staff Dir., US Sen. Comm. on Approps.2 filingsthrough 2008
Eric J SilvaWinston Taylor LLP (Formerly Known as Winston & Strawn LLP)Covered position: LA, Senator James Jeffords2 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 15 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
