24 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2017 · latest filed Dec 12, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$495K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$495K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Automotive Industry
AUT
18 filings
$430K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
16 filings
$380K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Matt GinsbergChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC10 filingsthrough 2017
Jason TaiChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. William Lipinski ; ; Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Dan Lipinski ; ; Associate Professional Staff Member, House T&I10 filingsthrough 2017
Katherine Heil HamiltonFounders Policy Group F/K/A 38 North Solutions, LLC8 filingsthrough 2017
Isaac BrownFounders Policy Group F/K/A 38 North Solutions, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Jan Schakowsky8 filingsthrough 2017
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: tesla-motors-inc.
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.
14 filings
$305K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$320K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
1 filing
$10K 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.
4 filings
through 2010
H.R. 5350114th CongressEnergy Storage Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5381111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3302111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3442111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3495111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3353115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1655115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1855115th CongressA bill to permit the Miami Nation of Indiana to apply for acknowledgment as a federally recognized Indian tribe, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Intern, Senator John Seymour8 filingsthrough 2011
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Congressman Al Swift8 filingsthrough 2011
Angela Becker-DippmannSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Maria Cantwell8 filingsthrough 2011
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Assistant Counsel, House Trans and Infast. Com7 filingsthrough 2011
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Atty., Office of GC, US DOT6 filingsthrough 2010
Glynda Ann BeckerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Rick White5 filingsthrough 2010
Gabriel HorwitzSignal Group Consulting, LLC4 filingsthrough 2011
Andrew DavisSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Representative David Skaggs4 filingsthrough 2010
Rachelle Ashley SlaterSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Dir.of Legislative Affairs, Council on Environmental Quality3 filingsthrough 2011
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LA, Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich3 filingsthrough 2009
