39 filings from 1 registrant · 2013–2022 · latest filed Dec 16, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$850K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$850K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Transportation
TRA
39 filings
$850K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
37 filings
$810K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 46 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1507116th CongressBicycle Commuter Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1679116th CongressPHIT Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS, Rep. Adam Putnam; Policy Director, House Republican Conference; Staff Director, Republican Policy Committee; LD, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart; LA, Rep. Felix Grucci; LC, Senator Jon Kyl; Staff Asst., Senator Connie Mack45 filingsthrough 2022
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy COS, Rep. Doc Hastings; LD, Rep. Jack Metcalf24 filingsthrough 2017
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 2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 39 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: peopleforbikes-coalition-fka-bikes-belong-coalition.
TRD
35 filings
$770K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
23 filings
$530K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$410K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
11 filings
$220K on those filings
Veterans
VET
9 filings
$190K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
8 filings
$210K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$40K 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.
116th Congress
PHIT Act of 2019
9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1225116th CongressRestore Our Parks and Public Lands Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act7 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.
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Asst Counsel, House Transp. and Infrastructure Committee
17 filingsthrough 2016
Sean GarciaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Campaign Finance Analyst, FEC11 filingsthrough 2015
Kathleen FrangioneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; LA, Senator John Kerry8 filingsthrough 2016
Matthew BrownSignal Group Consulting, LLC8 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
