Note · At least one filing discloses a foreign entity with an interest in a client this registrant represents. Those disclosures are listed below.
Revenue 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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 55 clients
673 filings
$26.4M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 36 clients
560 filings
$20.2M on those filings
Transportation
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this firm's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Ted CruzR-Texas
Bills: S. 1199, S. 1207, S. 1409 +7 more
266 filings
2 lobbyists
Maria CantwellD-Washington
Bills: S. 1418, S. 1939, S. 2503 +3 more
255 filings
2 lobbyists
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Robert William ChamberlinCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Assistant Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committtee.1,230 filings89 clients · through 2026
Samuel WhitehornCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee.1,209 filings80 clients · through 2026
Jeffrey D MarkeyCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.926 filings71 clients · through 2026
Julie HrdlickaCovered 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.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Crrc Changchun Railway Vehicles Co.
China
2 filings
through 2019
Supply-Build Canada
Canada
1 filing
through 2025
Crrc Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 1,350 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: elevate-government-affairs-llc.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $48.3M in fees and $0 in expenses.
TRA · 33 clients
465 filings
$18.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 31 clients
366 filings
$11.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 19 clients
256 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 20 clients
225 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 20 clients
221 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 17 clients
208 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 16 clients
160 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 8 clients
154 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 19 clients
153 filings
$7.2M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 12 clients
149 filings
$5.8M 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 money 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.
Jerry MoranR-Kansas
Bills: S. 1939, S. 2354, S. 2378 +5 more
240 filings
2 lobbyists
Tammy DuckworthD-Illinois
Bills: S. 1409, S. 1939, S. 2503 +1 more
236 filings
2 lobbyists
Rick LarsenD-Washington-AL
Bills: H.R. 3935, H.R. 4275, H.R. 5530 +6 more
228 filings
2 lobbyists
Sam GravesR-Missouri-AL
Bills: H.R. 3935, H.R. 4275, H.R. 5530 +5 more
224 filings
2 lobbyists
Garret GravesR-Louisiana-AL
Bills: H.R. 3935
172 filings
2 lobbyists
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 firm'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.
344 filings41 clients · through 2022
Steven SchultzCovered 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.313 filings29 clients · through 2026
Bret ManleyCovered 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 07-08.271 filings29 clients · through 2026
David Alexander MartenCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Denny Heck; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Denny Heck229 filings24 clients · through 2026
Max RosenCovered position: Research Assistant, Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.179 filings22 clients · through 2022
Kelly LugarCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy.120 filings12 clients · through 2025
Tyler HardyCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. John Hoeven.118 filings16 clients · through 2025
Chris LeuchtenCovered 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.82 filings24 clients · through 2026
Allison NyholmCovered position: Policy Advisor for Sen. Lisa Murkowski.77 filings14 clients · through 2026
Michelle RichardsonCovered position: Congressman Roger F. Wicker (MS-01): Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff House Appropriations Committee: Associate staff, Congressman Roger F. Wicker US Senator Roger F. Wicker: Chief of Staff. (No Senate)69 filings21 clients · through 2026
Mike Burnside56 filings14 clients · through 2022
Richard James Pezzella43 filings10 clients · through 2026
Christopher Leahy5 filings5 clients · through 2026
Robert Chamerlin1 filing1 client · through 2026
Richard ChamberlinCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Assistant Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.1 filing1 client · through 2025
Covered positions · 14 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
China
1 filing
through 2019
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
