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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
17 filings
$660K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
13 filings
$300K on those filings
Homeland Security
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1194111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.2 filingsthrough 2008
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jill Shapiro LongSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LA, Senator Mikulski11 filingsthrough 2010
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Intern, Senator John Seymour11 filingsthrough 2010
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LA, Representative Al Swift11 filingsthrough 2010
William HornBirch, Horton, Bittner & CherotCovered position: Assist. Secretary for Fish, Wildlife & Parks, DOI
The filings
The 20 most recent of 28 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: personal-watercraft-industry-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.
HOM
8 filings
$380K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$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.
S. 1892110th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
2 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.
9 filingsthrough 2010
Brian BerryCls Strategies (Formerly Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter and Associates, Inc.)8 filingsthrough 2010
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr Atty Office of GC, US Dept of Transport.7 filingsthrough 2010
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, CONGRESSMAN ZACK WAMP4 filingsthrough 2010
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT, REPRESENTATIVE JIM MCDERMOTT2 filingsthrough 2008
Holland PattersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE LIAISON FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE2 filingsthrough 2008
Rick DesimoneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: CHIEF OF STAFF, SENATOR PATTY MURRAY2 filingsthrough 2008
Menda FifeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LEGISLATIVE CORRESPONDENT, SENATOR TOM HARKIN2 filingsthrough 2008
Gina Maire LindseySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: INTERIOR APPROP. SPECIALIST, CONGRESSMAN GEORGE NETHERCUT2 filingsthrough 2008
Alexander OrtizBirch, Horton, Bittner & CherotCovered position: Staff, Senator Ted Stevens1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 12 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
