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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Rick LarsenD-Washington-AL
Bills: H.R. 3935, H.R. 4275, H.R. 5530 +6 more
228 filings
2 lobbyists
Garret GravesR-Louisiana-AL
Bills: H.R. 3935
172 filings
2 lobbyists
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee31 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 & Infrastructure Committee (Asst. Counsel, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee)31 filingsthrough 2019
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US DOT; Dem. Staff Assistant, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Staff Assistant, Senator Mark Dayton30 filingsthrough 2019
The filings
The 20 most recent of 58 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-tour-operators-association.
$560K
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.
58 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
58 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
56 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
52 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
28 filings
$580K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
5 filings
$140K 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
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings.
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 751116th CongressJournalist Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1354113th CongressJOLT Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3052116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2134116th CongressBrand USA Extension Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 428116th CongressFreedom to Export to Cuba Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 500116th CongressRestore Our Parks Act7 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.
Kimberlyn King-HindsR-Northern Mariana Islands-AL
Bills: H.R. 5100, H.R. 7613, H.R. 9250
32 filings
2 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy CoS Rep. Doc Hastings; LD, Rep. Jack Metcalf; Graduate Fellow, US Dept. of State; Intern, Senator John Seymour20 filingsthrough 2019
Jonathan BlackSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.18 filingsthrough 2016
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.11 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
Max RosenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Research Asst., Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.11 filingsthrough 2022
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS, Rep Adam Putnam; Policy Director, House Republican Conference; Staff Director, Republican Policy Committee; LD, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart; LA, Rep. Felix Grucci; LC, Senator John Kyl; Staff Asst., Senator Connie Mack9 filingsthrough 2019
Tyler HardyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. John Hoeven.8 filingsthrough 2024
Max RosenSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure6 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.5 filingsthrough 2026
Bret ManleyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Rodney Davis 19-22; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jeff Denham 17-18;Legislative Director, Rep. Jeff Denham 11-17; Financial Services Policy Advisor, Rep. Gary Miller 08-10; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Gary Miller 07-08.5 filingsthrough 2026
Allison NyholmElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor for Sen. Lisa Murkowski.5 filingsthrough 2026
Richard James PezzellaElevate Government Affairs, LLC5 filingsthrough 2026
George RiccardoSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure5 filingsthrough 2018
Chris LeuchtenElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide for the office of Senator Mark Begich, Policy Advisor & Counsel, Policy Director, Policy Director / Counsel, Counsel & Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for the office of Senator Kyrsten Sinema. (No Senate)4 filingsthrough 2026
Mike BurnsideElevate Government Affairs, LLC4 filingsthrough 2022
Clare AdamsSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Intern, International Trade Association2 filingsthrough 2016
Michelle RichardsonElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Congressman Roger F. Wicker (MS-01): Deputy Chief ofStaff, Chief of Staff House Appropriations Committee:Associate staff, Congressman Roger F. Wicker US Senator Roger F. Wicker: Chief of Staff.1 filingthrough 2026
Sarah HamlettSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Drake; Legislative Asst., Rep. Schrock1 filingthrough 2019
Nadeam ElshamiSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS, Dem Ldr. Nancy Pelosi;Comms Director/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, Congressman Schakowsky; Deputy Press Secretary - Senator Boxer1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 23 of 25 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
