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.
Automotive Industry
AUT
7 filings
$170K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
7 filings
$170K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kathleen FrangioneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations CommitteeLegislative Assistant, Senator John Kerry7 filingsthrough 2013
Rachelle Ashley SlaterSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Affairs Specialist, US Dept. of CommercePower Marketing Specialist, BPALegislative Asst., Representative Jennifer Dunn6 filingsthrough 2012
Paul Theodore AndersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LTC, US Army (Retired)4 filingsthrough 2013
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLC
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: simbol-materials-llc-fka-simbol-inc.
7 filings
$170K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
7 filings
$170K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
7 filings
$170K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$150K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$150K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
5 filings
$120K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
5 filings
$120K 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.
Covered position: L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc HastingsLegislative Director, Representative Jack MetcalfGraduate Fellow, US Department of StateIntern, Senator John Seymour
4 filingsthrough 2011
Michael W SheehySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Edward Boland3 filingsthrough 2012
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Asst Counsel, Hse Transp.& Infrastructure Comm.2 filingsthrough 2012
Andrew DavisSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Comm. Director, Senator John KerryComm. Director, Senator Ernest F. HollingsDeputy Dir., Senate Dem. Comm. CommitteeRadio Prod, Senate Dem. Comm. CommitteeStaff Assistant, Representative David Skaggs2 filingsthrough 2010
