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.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy CoS, REp. Doc Hastings; LD, Rep. Jack Metcalf42 filingsthrough 2019
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee37 filingsthrough 2019
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Dep. Staff Director/Gen. Counsel, US Senate35 filingsthrough 2019
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLC LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings; Legislative Director, Representative Jeff Metcalf.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 67 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: port-of-seattle.
$1.4M
fees reported
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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.
CAW
66 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
66 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
63 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
62 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
20 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
19 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
19 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
11 filings
$630K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$500K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$380K 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
FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024
7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3152115th CongressHarbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1488115th CongressHarbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 524119th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2263117th CongressSustainable Skies Act6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 316117th CongressFly Safe and Healthy Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1509113th CongressMaritime Goods Movement Act for the 21st Century6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7613117th Congress21st Century FREE Speech Act5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Covered position:
27 filingsthrough 2026
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.26 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.26 filingsthrough 2026
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House17 filingsthrough 2013
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.14 filingsthrough 2026
Sean GarciaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Campaign Finance Analyst, FEC11 filingsthrough 2015
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.8 filingsthrough 2014
Glynda Ann BeckerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House8 filingsthrough 2011
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senate6 filingsthrough 2010
Rick DesimoneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, US Senate6 filingsthrough 2010
