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.
Railroads
RRR
46 filings
$470K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 66 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 638113th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
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: norfolk-southern-railway-corporation.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2013
5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1806111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 233111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 272111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 146111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1451115th CongressRAILS Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 749114th CongressPassenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 650114th CongressRailroad Safety and Positive Train Control Extension Act4 filingsthrough 2015
S. 808114th CongressSurface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2889111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1650110th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2095110th CongressRailroad Safety Enhancement Act of 20084 filingsthrough 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.
Chuck Baker
Chambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC
5 filingsthrough 2019
Adam NordstromChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Office of Senator Brownback5 filingsthrough 2009
Donald John NordenChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLCCovered position: Legal Counsel, Office of Sen. Exon5 filingsthrough 2009
Ed MckechnieChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC4 filingsthrough 2019
