17 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2014 · latest filed Jan 20, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$490K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$490K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
14 filings
$490K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$370K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc Hastings ; ; Legislative Director, Representative Jack Metcalf ; ; Graduate Fellow, US Department of State ; ; Intern, Senator John Seymour13 filingsthrough 2014
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Congressman Norm Dicks ; ; Legislative Aide, Congresswoman Maria Cantwell ; ; Legislative Aide, Congressman Al Swift10 filingsthrough 2013
Gabriel HorwitzSignal Group Consulting, LLC7 filingsthrough 2012
Andrew DavisSignal Group Consulting, LLC Comm. Director, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Comm. Director, Senator John Kerry ; ; Comm. Director, Senator Ernest F. Hollings ; ; Deputy Dir., Senate Dem. Comm. Committee ; ; Radio Prod, Senate Dem. Comm. Committee ; ; Staff Assistant, Representative David Skaggs
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: vantagepoint-management-inc.
7 filings
$370K 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.
Covered position:
4 filingsthrough 2010
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/ L.D., Congressman Zach Wamp ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Rick Hill ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich3 filingsthrough 2011
Angela Becker-DippmannSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Pro Staff, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee ; ; Policy Director, Senator Maria Cantwell ; ; Communications Director, Senator Maria Cantwell ; ; Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Maria Cantwell ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator Maria Cantwell3 filingsthrough 2010
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Senior Counsel, Senate Commerce ; ; Assistant Counsel, House Transport. & Infrastruct. Committee3 filingsthrough 2010
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack1 filingthrough 2011
Kathleen FrangioneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Office of Senator John Kerry1 filingthrough 2011
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Patty Murray ; ; Legislative Assistant, Representative Jim McDermott1 filingthrough 2009
Holland PattersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy White House Liaison for the Department of Defense1 filingthrough 2009
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Acting Staff Director, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Sr. Atty., Office of GC, US DOT1 filingthrough 2009
Glynda Ann BeckerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House ; ; Congressional Affairs, Office of the Secretary ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Mark Kennedy ; ; Interior Approp. Specialist, Congressman George Nethercut ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congressman Rick White1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 12 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
