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.28 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 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-northwest-seaport-alliance.
$650K
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.
42 filings
$2M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
42 filings
$2M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
20 filings
$1M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$200K 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.
115th Congress
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 2017
7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1488115th CongressHarbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 524119th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 151117th CongressPreventing Future Pandemics Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
S. 216117th CongressClimate Smart Ports Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3363119th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on United States-bound circumvented cargo through Canada or Mexico and entering the United States.4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4275119th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
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 Committee16 filingsthrough 2019
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)16 filingsthrough 2019
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Asst. Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Department of Transportation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Staff Asst., Office of Senator Mark Dayton16 filingsthrough 2019
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.14 filingsthrough 2026
Julie HrdlickaElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transporation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation; Staff Assistant, Office of US Senate Mark Dayton.11 filingsthrough 2022
Nadeam ElshamiSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS,Dem. Ldr. Pelosi; Comms.Dir./Sr.Adv.,Dem.Ldr. Pelosi; Dep. Comms. Dir./Sr. Adv., Speaker Pelosi; Sr. Comms. Adv./Dep. Comms. Dir./Spokesman Senator Dick Durbin; Dep. CoS/Comms.Dir., Congresswoman Schakowsky; Dep. Press Sec., Senator Boxer3 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 10 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
