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.
Graham DufaultAssociation for Competitive Technology14 filingsthrough 2023
Scott RiplingerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dean Heller, 2007 - 2011; Shared Employee and Staff Assistant, U.S. House Small Business Committee, Rep. Don Manzullo, 2005 - 200713 filingsthrough 2026
Jill HamakerCgcn Group, LLC13 filingsthrough 2026
Tim PatakiCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Assistant to the President, Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2019 - January 2021)10 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 26 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: association-for-competitive-technology.
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.
CIV
14 filings
$313K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
14 filings
$313K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
14 filings
$313K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
2 filings
$90K 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
Telehealth Modernization Act
7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6279118th CongressWEAR IT Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4832116th CongressLow-Income Water Customer Assistance Programs Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3816117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Choice Online Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8152117th CongressAmerican Data Privacy and Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2710117th CongressOpen App Markets Act3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2992117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Choice Online Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1557118th CongressBID Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 9067117th CongressBID Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2741116th CongressCONNECT for Health Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2968116th CongressConsumer Online Privacy Rights Act2 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3771116th CongressFUTURE of Artificial Intelligence Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
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, 2014-20159 filingsthrough 2025
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2024
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Committee 2001-2003; Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-20064 filingsthrough 2024
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Director House Subcommittee on Energy May 2004-Mar 2006; 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, 20114 filingsthrough 2024
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Director Subcommittee Financial Institutions 2002-06; Senior Policy Advisor Sen. Robert F. Bennett 2007-10; Professional Staff Member, Senate Banking Committee 2007-104 filingsthrough 2024
Alex RenjelCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Research Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 2007-20134 filingsthrough 2024
Amber KirchhoeferCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Policy Adviser, Senior Policy Adviser, Legislative Director - Sen. Robert F. Bennett 2002-2010; Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff - Sen. Pat Roberts 2011-20204 filingsthrough 2024
Susan GriffithsCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2024
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 2024
Covered positions · 9 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
