6 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2011 · latest filed May 27, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$170K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$170K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$150K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2730110th CongressClean Energy Investment Bank Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
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 Seymour5 filingsthrough 2011
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC4 filingsthrough 2010
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLC4 filingsthrough 2010
Shannon O'KeefeSignal Group Consulting, LLC4 filingsthrough 2010
Glynda Ann Becker
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: ze-gen-inc.
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.
ENV
4 filings
$150K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$130K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$130K 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.
Signal Group Consulting, LLC
3 filingsthrough 2010
Gabriel HorwitzSignal Group Consulting, LLC3 filingsthrough 2010
Dan RenbergArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Member, Board of Directors, Ex-Im Bank; Leg. Director and3 filingsthrough 2008
Margo KlostermanArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Legislative Asst. to Rep. John Boehner2 filingsthrough 2008
David AdkinsArentfox Schiff LLP2 filingsthrough 2008
Michael W SheehySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Nat. Sec. Adv., Speaker of the House of Reps. ; ; Sta.Dir/Chief Coun. H. Perm Select Comm Intel ; ; Chief of Staff, Congressman Richard Neal ; ; Chief of Staff, Congressman Edward Boland1 filingthrough 2011
Kathleen FrangioneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Foreign Relations Committee ; ; Professional Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator John Kerry1 filingthrough 2011
Elizabeth PhillipsSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff Surveys/Investigation, Approps Committee ; ; Dir. of Joint Strategic Planning & Assessment Office, DOS ; ; Prof Staff, Appropriations Committee1 filingthrough 2011
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Atty., Office of GC, US DOT1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 7 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
