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.
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.28 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.28 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.27 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 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: the-gordian-group-llc.
$740K
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.
19 filings
$760K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
12 filings
$480K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
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.
116th Congress
A bill to provide for the carriage of certain television broadcast stations, and for other purposes.
8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3106115th CongressTo amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish a maximum contaminant level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for perfluorinated compounds (including perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid), and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2302116th CongressAmerica's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3354115th CongressMake America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 20185 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1655115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20185 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4345117th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7616116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5394115th CongressIran Responsible Reporting Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2017
S. 2844115th CongressSTB Information Security Improvement Act3 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3106114th CongressConstruction Reform Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5394114th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee20 filingsthrough 2019
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Asst. Counsel, House Transp. & Infrastructure Committee (Asst. Counsel, House Transp. & Infrastructure Committee)20 filingsthrough 2019
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 & Transportation; Staff Asst., Office of Senator Mark Dayton20 filingsthrough 2019
Paul Theodore AndersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LTC, US Army (Retired)14 filingsthrough 2019
Steven SchultzElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, and Legislative Counsel for the office of Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr.; Shared Staff for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.13 filingsthrough 2026
Julie HrdlickaElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transportation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation; Staff Assistant, Office of US Senate Mark Dayton.11 filingsthrough 2022
Max RosenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.11 filingsthrough 2022
Tyler HardyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. John Hoeven.8 filingsthrough 2024
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.; Summer Law Clerk, SEC; Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.8 filingsthrough 2016
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.6 filingsthrough 2026
Max RosenSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure6 filingsthrough 2019
George RiccardoSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure5 filingsthrough 2018
Mike BurnsideElevate Government Affairs, LLC4 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 16 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
