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.28 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 Committtee.28 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.26 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 74 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: national-tour-association.
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.
RES
43 filings
$560K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
29 filings
$290K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
28 filings
$280K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
26 filings
$260K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$30K 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.
117th Congress
Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2584116th CongressTo amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings.8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 751116th CongressJournalist Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2134116th CongressBrand USA Extension Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 428116th CongressFreedom to Export to Cuba Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 500116th CongressRestore Our Parks Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2584115th CongressNational Park Service Legacy Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 751115th CongressNational Park Service Legacy Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1401114th CongressJOLT Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Stephen Richer
Richer Advisors
Covered position: Public Affairs Advocate
21 filingsthrough 2014
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee17 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 Transportation & Infrastructure Committee)17 filingsthrough 2019
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Asst. Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transportation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Staff Asst., Office of Senator Mark Dayton17 filingsthrough 2019
Julie HrdlickaElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transporation; 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.11 filingsthrough 2022
James SantiniJames Santini9 filingsthrough 2010
Tyler HardyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. John Hoeven.8 filingsthrough 2024
Steven SchultzElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, and Legislative Counsel for the office of Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr.; Shared Staff for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure6 filingsthrough 2026
Max RosenSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure6 filingsthrough 2019
George RiccardoSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure5 filingsthrough 2018
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
Mike BurnsideElevate Government Affairs, LLC4 filingsthrough 2022
