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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
16 filings
$400K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
16 filings
$400K on those filings
Telecommunications
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1908111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4106111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1000111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1145111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC18 filingsthrough 2014
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC18 filingsthrough 2014
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-0618 filingsthrough 2014
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: blackberry-corporation-formerly-know-as-research-in-motion.
TEC
16 filings
$400K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
10 filings
$280K 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.
S. 891111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act1 filingthrough 2011
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.1 filingthrough 2011
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act1 filingthrough 2011
S. 3217112th CongressStartup Act 2.01 filingthrough 2011
S. 891112th CongressMedicare Hospice Care Access Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
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: Cong liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006-10
12 filingsthrough 2014
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLC11 filingsthrough 2014
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor Sen Robert F. Bennett 2007-107 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
