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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
64 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
41 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 998112th CongressPension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Pilots Equitable Treatment Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2362111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2488111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 998
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-0672 filingsthrough 2026
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLC63 filingsthrough 2025
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC63 filingsthrough 2024
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor Sen Robert F. Bennett 2007-1051 filingsthrough 2024
John Stipicevic
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 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: beam-inc-previously-reported-as-fortune-brands-inc.
DIS
15 filings
$356K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
10 filings
$185K on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
10 filings
$185K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
H.R. 1908112th CongressTo specify the priority of the obligations of the United States Government if the debt ceiling is reached, to provide for an emergency appropriation of funds to pay for certain defense and national security obligations during a gap in funding, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2122112th CongressExport Administration Renewal Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2488112th CongressSERVE Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1792112th CongressStrengthening Investigations of Sex Offenders and Missing Children Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3208112th CongressMultinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 20125 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1908111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4112111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1792111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 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.
Cgcn Group, LLC
Covered position: Director of Floor Operations, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, 2011-2014 Deputy Chief of Staff for Floor and Member Services, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, 2014-2015
48 filingsthrough 2026
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC32 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 - 2007.29 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 201423 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, 2017-201822 filingsthrough 2023
Alex RenjelCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Research Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 2007-201320 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 1994-199717 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 2011-202016 filingsthrough 2024
Tim PatakiCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Assistant to the President, Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2019 - January 2021)16 filingsthrough 2024
Katie Rae MitchellCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Paul Cook - Jan 2014-Nov 2014 Intern, Rep. Devin Nunes - Aug 2013-Dec 201312 filingsthrough 2019
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 20179 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
Jill HamakerCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2024
Susan GriffithsCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 15 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
