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.
Banking
BAN
18 filings
$634K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
18 filings
$634K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 7866119th CongressAmerican Lending Fairness Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
S. 3889119th CongressAmerican Lending Fairness Act of 20262 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC19 filingsthrough 2026
John StipicevicCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Intern/Staff Assistant, Majority Whip Roy Blunt, 2003-2006;
Floor Assistant, Republican Whip Roy Blunt, 2007-2008;
Floor Assistant, Republican Whip Eric Cantor, 2009-2010;; Director of Floor Operations, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, 2011-2014;
Deputy Chief of Staff for Floor and Member Services, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, 2014-201519 filingsthrough 2026
Scott RiplingerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (1) Legislative Director, Sen. Mike Crapo, 2019- 2020; Legislative Director, Deputy Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller, 2011 - 2018;; (2) Majority Staff Director of the Securities, Insurance, and Investment Subcommittee, U.S. Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee, 2017 - 2018;; (3) Majority and Minority Staff Director of the Economic Policy Subcommittee, U.S. Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee, 2013 - 2016;; (4) Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dean Heller, 2007 - 2011; Shared Employee and Staff Assistant, U.S. House Small Business Committee, Rep. Don Manzullo, 2005 - 2007
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: bread-financial-fka-alliance-data-systems-corporation.
TAX
18 filings
$634K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
18 filings
$634K 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.
19 filingsthrough 2026
Tim PatakiCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (1) Staff Assistant, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (January 2011 - March 2012); Special Assistant to the Chief Deputy Whip (March 2012 - April 2013); Floor Assistant, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (April 2013 - July 2014); (2) Sr. Advisor & Director of Coalitions & Member Services, House Energy & Commerce Committee (August 2014 - Jan. 2017); Special Assistant to the President, Office of Legislative Affairs, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2017 - May 2018); (3) Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (June 2018 - December 2018); (4) Assistant to the President, Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2019 - January 2021)13 filingsthrough 2026
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Committee 2001-2003;
Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-200610 filingsthrough 2024
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: LC, Rep. Bob Barr, Jan 1997- Aug 1997;
LA/Comm Director, Rep. Jim Gibbons Aug 1997-Sep 2000;
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, 201110 filingsthrough 2024
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;
Professional Staff Member, Senate Banking Committee 2007-1010 filingsthrough 2024
Alex RenjelCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Research Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 2007-201310 filingsthrough 2024
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 2011-202010 filingsthrough 2024
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, 2017-20187 filingsthrough 2023
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 · 10 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
