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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
45 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
45 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 106 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1174114th CongressLaw Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad Act9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1059118th CongressSECURE Notarization Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Com 2001-03 ; ; Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-200651 filingsthrough 2026
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: LC, Rep. Bob Barr, January 1997 - August 1997 ; ; LA/Comm Dir, Rep. Jim Gibbons August 1997-September 2000 ; ; Staff Director, House SubCom Energy May 2004-March 2006 ; ; Policy Advisor, Majority Leader Boehner Mar 2006-Dec 2006 ; ; Policy Advisor, Minority Leader Boehner Jan 2007 - Dec 2010 ; ; Asst Policy, Speaker John Boehner Jan 2011 - May 1, 201150 filingsthrough 2025
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, 2014-201546 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 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: bsa-the-software-alliance-formerly-bsa-business-software-alliance-inc.
CPT
44 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
32 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Education
EDU
32 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
27 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
19 filings
$570K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
15 filings
$450K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
14 filings
$420K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
11 filings
$420K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
5 filings
$150K 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
Democracy Technology Partnership Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4223118th CongressNational AI Commission Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 483118th CongressInternet PACT Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4891118th CongressMulti-Cloud Innovation and Advancement Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3052117th CongressDigital Trade for Development Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4468117th CongressAI for Agency Impact Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4469117th CongressAI in Counterterrorism Oversight Enhancement Act6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
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.
through 2026
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC43 filingsthrough 2024
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Robert F. Bennett 1999-2001 ; ; Staff Director SubComm Financial Institutions 2002-2006 ; ; Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Robert F. Bennett 2007-201043 filingsthrough 2024
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 - 2007.26 filingsthrough 2026
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Policy Director/Counsel, Ofc of Conference Chariman 2009 ; ; Deputy Staff Dir, Sen Republican Policy Committee 2009-2010 ; ; Staff Director, Sen Republican Policy Committee 2010-2012 ; ; Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014 ; ; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 201425 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, 2017-201820 filingsthrough 2023
Alex RenjelCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Research Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 2007-201318 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 1994-199718 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 2011-202014 filingsthrough 2024
Martha Beatrice MillerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Director of Scheduling, Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), 2019-2020; Scheduler, Rep. Warren Davidson (OH-08), 2020-2022.13 filingsthrough 2026
Katie Rae MitchellCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Paul Cook - Jan 2014-Nov 2014 Intern, Rep. Devin Nunes - Aug 2013-Dec 201313 filingsthrough 2019
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC13 filingsthrough 2017
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Congressman Todd Tiahrt 1997 - 1999 ; ; Conf Coordinator, House Republican Conference 1999 - 2000 ; ; Office Manager, Majority Whip Tom Delay 2000 - 2003 ; ; Finance Director, Majority Leader Tom Delay 2003 - 2005 ; ; Congress liaison, US Trade & Development Agency 2006-201013 filingsthrough 2017
Michael J CatanzaroCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Communications Director, House Science Committee ; ; Press Secretary, Rep. Dave Hobson ; ; Communications Director Senate Environment and Public Work ; ; Assoc Director for Policy, WH Council on Enviro Protection ; ; Assoc Deputy Administrator - Environmental Protection Agency ; ; Dep Staff Director, Senate Environmental & Public Works Com ; ; Senior Policy Advisor, Speaker John Boehner12 filingsthrough 2017
Tim PatakiCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Assistant to the President, Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2019 - January 2021)11 filingsthrough 2023
Deborah PryceCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress (OH-15) 1993 - 200911 filingsthrough 2016
Michael FreemanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel for Sen. Mike Lee, Oct. 2011- Jan. 2014; Counsel, House Natural Resources Committee - Jan. 2014 - May 201710 filingsthrough 2019
Jill HamakerCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2024
Susan GriffithsCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 17 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
