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.
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Committee 2001-2003; Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-200624 filingsthrough 2023
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, Majority Leader Boehner Mar 2006-Dec 2006; Policy Advisor, Minority Leader Boehner Jan 2007-Dec 2010; Asst Policy Speaker Boehner Jan 2011-May 1, 201124 filingsthrough 2023
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Robert F. Bennett 1999-2001; Staff Director Subcommittee Financial Institutions 2002-06; Senior Policy Advisor Sen. Robert F. Bennett 2007-10
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: american-petroleum-institute-api.
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.
19 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
18 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
15 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
5 filings
$350K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
3 filings
$315K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
2 filings
$20K 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.
117th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20222 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1346119th CongressTo amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2026
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.
24 filingsthrough 2023
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, 2014-201524 filingsthrough 2023
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, 2007-201317 filingsthrough 2023
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 - 2007.17 filingsthrough 2023
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 2023
Tim PatakiCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Assistant to the President, Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2019 - January 2021)12 filingsthrough 2023
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 1994-199711 filingsthrough 2020
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 20147 filingsthrough 2019
Katie Rae MitchellCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Paul Cook - Jan 2014-Nov 2014; Intern, Rep. Devin Nunes - Aug 2013-Dec 20136 filingsthrough 2019
Jennifer StewartUnited by Interest, LLC.Covered position: Eddie Bernice Johnson, 2000- 2002, Legislative Assistant Gregory Meeks, 2002- 2005, Legislative Director6 filingsthrough 2019
Mike WilliamsUnited by Interest, LLC.Covered position: White House 1995-1999, Special assistant to the President for legislative affairs6 filingsthrough 2019
Ebony SimpsonUnited by Interest, LLC.Covered position: William Jefferson, 2007- 2009, Legislative Assistant Hank Johnson, 2009- 2012, Office Manager/Scheduler6 filingsthrough 2019
Michael FreemanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel for Sen. Mike Lee, Oct. 2011- Jan. 2014; Counsel, House Natural Resources Committee - Jan. 2014 - May 20175 filingsthrough 2019
Joseph VaughanUnited by Interest, LLC.5 filingsthrough 2019
Martha Beatrice MillerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Director of Scheduling, Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), 2019-2020; Scheduler, Rep. Warren Davidson (OH-08), 2020-2022.4 filingsthrough 2023
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: 2001- 8/4/2013 - US Senate--Secretary for the Majority/Secretary for the Minority3 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel ScalesThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, USTR (2025); Deputy Assistant, USTR (2019-2020); Coalitions Director, House Natural Resources (2015-2016)3 filingsthrough 2026
David Bernard FischerKeller and Heckman, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP)3 filingsthrough 2025
Jill HamakerCgcn Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2023
Susan GriffithsCgcn Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2023
Katherine Winkler KeatingThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Joseph Crowley, House Democratic Caucus (5/2007-12/2018) Staffer, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee (1/2005-4/2007) Legislative Director to Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Ways and Means Committee (9/99-12/04)2 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth KelleyThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: WH:Obama:Natl Ecnmc Cncl:Spec Asst Preesident&CofS WH:Obama:Exec Ofc-President TRD Rep:Asst US TRD Rep for Private Sector Engagement Sen John Walsh CofS Sen Max Baucus:Deputy CofS/Political Dir Rep.Earl Blumenauer:Exec Asst&Deputy Press Sec2 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin R HowardThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Deputy Asst POTUS WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Deputy Dir.WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Dir Floor Ops,US House1/18-12/18 Special Asst,POTUS WH Leg.Affairs1/17-12/17 Floor Asst,US House1/11-8/14 Staff Asst,House Rep.Conf2/09-12/10 Staff Asst WH Leg Afrs6/08-1/091 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 23 of 27 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
