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.
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: aicpa.
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.
FIN
40 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Banking
BAN
34 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Torts
TOR
33 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
30 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
26 filings
$2M on those filings
Education
EDU
12 filings
$940K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
11 filings
$825K 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.
115th Congress
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2017
7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1564113th CongressAudit Integrity and Job Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3541118th CongressAccounting STEM Pursuit Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1705118th CongressSTEM Education in Accounting Act6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1347113th CongressConference Accountability Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1526113th CongressAudit Integrity and Job Protection Act6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4115112th CongressHIRE at HOME Act6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1504112th CongressMedicaid Restoration for Citizens of Freely Associated
States Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1551112th CongressMedicare Common Access Card Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1424111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4318111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
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.
John StipicevicCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Floor Operations, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, 2011-2014 Deputy Chief of Staff for Floor and Member Services, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, 2014-201546 filingsthrough 2026
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC36 filingsthrough 2017
Scott RiplingerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (5) Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dean Heller, 2007 - 2011; Shared Employee and Staff Assistant, U.S. House Small Business Committee, Rep. Don Manzullo, 2005 - 2007.26 filingsthrough 2026
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Cong liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006-1026 filingsthrough 2017
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 201424 filingsthrough 2019
Aaron L SzaboCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Analyst, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2008 - 2014; Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 2014-2017; Senior Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality, 2017-201820 filingsthrough 2023
Alex RenjelCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Research Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 2007-201319 filingsthrough 2024
Juliane C SullivanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Appropriations Adviser, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, 1999-2003 Senior Legislative Assistant, Appropriations, Rep Anne Northup, 1997-1999 Legislative Assistant, Rep Ed Whitfield 1994-199718 filingsthrough 2020
Amber KirchhoeferCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Joint Economic Committee 2001-2002; Legislative Assistant, Policy Adviser, Senior Policy Adviser, Legislative Director - Sen. Robert F. Bennett 2002-2010; Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff - Sen. Pat Roberts 2011-202013 filingsthrough 2024
Katie Rae MitchellCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Paul Cook - Jan 2014-Nov 2014 Intern, Rep. Devin Nunes - Aug 2013-Dec 201313 filingsthrough 2019
Tim PatakiCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Assistant to the President, Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2019 - January 2021)11 filingsthrough 2023
Michael J CatanzaroCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Associate Deputy Administrator - Environmental Protection Agency; Deputy Staff Director, Senate Environmental & Public Works Committee; Senior Policy Advisor, Speaker John Boehner11 filingsthrough 2017
Michael FreemanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel for Sen. Mike Lee, Oct. 2011- Jan. 2014; Counsel, House Natural Resources Committee - Jan. 2014 - May 201710 filingsthrough 2019
Martha Beatrice MillerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Director of Scheduling, Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), 2019-2020; Scheduler, Rep. Warren Davidson (OH-08), 2020-2022.5 filingsthrough 2024
Susan GriffithsCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2024
