115 filings from 9 registrants · 2009–2019 · latest filed Jan 17, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$10.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$6.6M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$4.3M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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: bridgepoint-education.
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.
14 filings
$2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$500K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$60K 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.
H.R. 340113th CongressProtecting Financial Aid for Students and Taxpayers Act12 filingsthrough 2014
S. 113113th CongressKnow Before You Owe Private Student Loan Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
S. 114113th CongressFairness for Struggling Students Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
S. 528113th CongressProtecting Financial Aid for Students and Taxpayers Act12 filingsthrough 2014
S. 634113th CongressService Members Student Loan Relief Act12 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2206112th CongressGI Educational Freedom Act of 201212 filingsthrough 2012
S. 406113th CongressStudents First Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 614113th CongressA bill to require the continuation of tuition assistance programs for members of the Armed Forces for the remainder of fiscal year 2013.10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 357113th CongressGI Bill Tuition Fairness Act of 20149 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2637114th CongressCoal Country Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 559114th CongressSupporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act8 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: LA/Comm Dir, Rep Jim Gibbons August 1997-September 2000Staff Dir House SubComm Energy May 2004 - March 2006Policy Advisor, Majority Leader John Boehner Mar06-Dec06Policy Advisor, Minority Leader John Boehner Jan07-Dec2010Asst Policy Speaker Boehner January 2011 - May 1, 201116 filingsthrough 2016
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Director, Sub-Committee Financial Institutions 2002-06Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Robert R. Bennett 2007-201016 filingsthrough 2016
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Conf coordinator, House Republican Conference 1999 - 2000Office Manager, Majority Whip Tom Delay 2000 - 2003Finance Director, Majority Leader Tom Delay 2003 - 2005Congressional Liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006-201016 filingsthrough 2016
Tim HutchinsonDickstein Shapiro LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator15 filingsthrough 2014
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson ; ; Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen14 filingsthrough 2018
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs14 filingsthrough 2018
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor14 filingsthrough 2018
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Aide, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Appropriations Coordinator, Senator McConnell ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell14 filingsthrough 2018
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education ; ; Special Assistant to the President ; ; Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House14 filingsthrough 2018
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Chip Pickering ; ; Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering14 filingsthrough 2018
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence13 filingsthrough 2018
Albert WynnDickstein Shapiro LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman13 filingsthrough 2013
Danielle MaurerFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Rules Committee ; ; Professional Staff Member, House Rules Committee ; ; Senior Floor Assistant, House Majority Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Republican Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Speaker ; ; Staff Assistant, Offie of Management and Budget ; ; Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB12 filingsthrough 2017
Deborah PryceCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Member of U.S. Congress (OH-15) 1993-200912 filingsthrough 2016
William Christopher LamondThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Aide, Senate Govt Affairs Comm; LA, Sen. Thompson12 filingsthrough 2014
John GreenCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff/Leg Aide, Senator Trent Lott12 filingsthrough 2014
Stewart HallCrossroads Strategies, LLC12 filingsthrough 2014
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 20148 filingsthrough 2016
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 Boehner8 filingsthrough 2016
Matt AnthesLiberty Square Group7 filingsthrough 2013
JAMES M MCCARTHY iiiLiberty Square GroupCovered position: Sr. Adv.; Poli. Dir.; Econ. Dev. Dir.; LA; LC7 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 37 of 58 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
