Solarcity, Inc. — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Solarcity, Inc.
California
5 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2010 · latest filed Jan 20, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$210K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$210K
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$210K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$210K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Intern, Senator John Seymour6 filingsthrough 2010
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Congressman Al Swift6 filingsthrough 2010
Angela Becker-DippmannSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Maria Cantwell6 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew DavisSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Representative David Skaggs
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: solarcity-inc.
5 filings
$210K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
3 filings
$150K 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.
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5765111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
6 filingsthrough 2010
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Assistant Counsel, House Trans and Infast. Com3 filingsthrough 2010
Gabriel HorwitzSignal Group Consulting, LLC2 filingsthrough 2010
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Atty., Office of GC, US DOT2 filingsthrough 2009
Alisa FergusonSignal Group Consulting, LLC1 filingthrough 2010
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Patty Murray ; ; Legislative Assistant, Representative Jim McDermott1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
