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
22 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$330K 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2844115th CongressSTB Information Security Improvement Act5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2844114th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy CoS, Rep. Doc Hastings; LD, Rep. Jack Metcalf24 filingsthrough 2018
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee24 filingsthrough 2018
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Asst. Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (Asst. Counsel, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee)24 filingsthrough 2018
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 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: sensata-technologies-inc-fka-schrader-international-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
FAST Act
2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 83113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2438113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2438114th CongressMedicaid and Chip Quality Improvement Act of 20161 filingthrough 2015
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.
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Asst. Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US DoT; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Staff Asst., Office of US Senator Mark Dayton
24 filingsthrough 2018
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.17 filingsthrough 2016
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst, Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich8 filingsthrough 2014
George RiccardoSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure5 filingsthrough 2018
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Putnam ; ; Policy Director, House Republican Conference ; ; Staff Director, Republican Policy Committee ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Felix Grucci ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jon Kyl ; ; Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack2 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 8 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
