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
19 filings
$900K on those filings
Defense
DEF
19 filings
$900K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5326112th CongressDepartment of Justice Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2323112th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
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: leidos-inc-fka-science-applications-international-corporation-or-saic.
15 filings
$800K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
13 filings
$680K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
10 filings
$500K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$280K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
1 filing
$60K 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
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5326113th CongressDependent Care Savings Account Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2323113th CongressGold Star Fathers Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3636111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20092 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3082112th CongressBiennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 3636112th CongressGift Card Consumer Protection Act of 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3182111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2830110th CongressTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 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.
Menda Fife
Signal Group Consulting, LLC
Covered position: Pro Staff Member, Senate Defense Approp Sub
4 filingsthrough 2008
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLC3 filingsthrough 2014
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLC3 filingsthrough 2013
Shannon O'KeefeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Resrch Analyst, Asst Sec. for Plan. and Eval., HHS3 filingsthrough 2010
Chelsea HendersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Prof. Staff, Enviro & Public Works Comm.2 filingsthrough 2013
Elizabeth PhillipsSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Prof Staff, Appropriations Committee2 filingsthrough 2012
Holland PattersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy White House Liaison for DOD2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
