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.
Aerospace
AER
18 filings
$720K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
18 filings
$720K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20245 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20245 filingsthrough 2024
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.19 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.19 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.19 filingsthrough 2026
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: nexteon-technologies.
3 filings
$120K 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
1 filingthrough 2024
S. 4796118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20251 filingthrough 2024
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 Schultz
Elevate Government Affairs, LLC
Covered 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 Infrastructure.
16 filingsthrough 2026
David Alexander MartenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Denny Heck; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Denny Heck.13 filingsthrough 2026
Bret ManleyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Rodney Davis; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jeff Denham.6 filingsthrough 2026
Mike BurnsideElevate Government Affairs, LLC3 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
