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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
38 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
38 filings
$1.1M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
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 Committtee.28 filingsthrough 2026
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.16 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: united-states-contract-weather-observing-association.
$310K
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.
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20245 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7616117th CongressTo reduce the amount made available to the National Archives and Records Administration unless certain backlogs of the Administration are resolved, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4552119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2465119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
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. 9028118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4796118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8294117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3163116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 8337116th CongressContinuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act2 filingsthrough 2020
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 Committee12 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)12 filingsthrough 2019
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Asst. Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transportation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Staff Asst., Office of Senator Mark Dayton12 filingsthrough 2019
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
Max RosenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.11 filingsthrough 2022
Max RosenSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure5 filingsthrough 2019
George RiccardoSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure3 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 10 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
