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.
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.21 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.21 filingsthrough 2026
Katie Kentfield HillJoby Aero, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Staff Assistant, Correspondence Director, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide, Sen. Jerry Moran18 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 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: joby-aero-inc.
$180K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
31 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
27 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
14 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$540K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$400K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$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.
118th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025
7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2503119th CongressROTOR Act6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4796118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20256 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4552119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20265 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2465119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20265 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4246117th CongressAAIM Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1339117th CongressAdvanced Air Mobility Coordination and Leadership Act3 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.
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.
18 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 07-08.16 filingsthrough 2026
Allison NyholmElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor for Sen. Lisa Murkowski.11 filingsthrough 2026
Max FenkellJoby Aero, Inc.Covered position: LA, Rep. Mark Sanford11 filingsthrough 2023
Adrienne SchweerJoby Aero, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Sen. Chuck Hagel; Staff Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel9 filingsthrough 2025
STEPHEN AARON jrPerspective StrategiesCovered position: Research Analyst, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works7 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
Tyler HardyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. John Hoeven.5 filingsthrough 2024
Michelle RichardsonElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Congressman Roger F. Wicker (MS-01): Deputy Chief ofStaff, Chief of Staff House Appropriations Committee:Associate staff, Congressman Roger F. Wicker US Senator Roger F. Wicker: Chief of Staff. (No Senate)3 filingsthrough 2026
Kristine O'BrienJoby Aero, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Aide, U.S. Senate (Senator Chuck Schumer, D-NY) 2017-2018 Director of Outreach and Member Services, U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-NY) 2019.2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 13 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
