20 filings from 3 registrants · 2013–2024 · latest filed Oct 29, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$715K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$715K
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.
S. 1188114th CongressA bill to provide for a temporary, emergency authorization of defense articles, defense services, and related training directly to the Kurdistan Regional Government, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2016
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-20064 filingsthrough 2024
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Director Subcommittee Financial Institutions 2002-06; Senior Policy Advisor Sen. Robert F. Bennett 2007-10; Professional Staff Member, Senate Banking Committee 2007-104 filingsthrough 2024
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: choice-hotels-international-inc.
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.
13 filings
$450K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$370K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$185K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
$185K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
3 filings
$185K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
1 filing
$70K 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.
114th Congress
A bill for the relief of Tim Lowry and Paul Nettleton of Owyhee County, Idaho.
7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1945113th CongressFostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2146113th CongressTerrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2988113th CongressForty Hours Is Full Time Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 508113th CongressTRIA Reauthorization Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1188113th CongressForty Hours Is Full Time Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 701113th CongressForty Hours Is Full Time Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
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.
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, 2014-2015
4 filingsthrough 2024
Scott RiplingerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dean Heller, 2007 - 2011; Shared Employee and Staff Assistant, U.S. House Small Business Committee, Rep. Don Manzullo, 2005 - 20074 filingsthrough 2024
Jill HamakerCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2024
Martha Beatrice MillerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Director of Scheduling, Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), 2019-2020; Scheduler, Rep. Warren Davidson (OH-08), 2020-2022.4 filingsthrough 2024
ROSCOE JONES jrGibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Abigale Spanberger; Leg. Director to Sen. Diane Feinstein; Sr. Counsel to Sen. Cory Booker; Sr. Counsel to Sen. Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee; Special Counsel to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.3 filingsthrough 2024
Daniel SmithGibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Deputy Counsel, Counsel and Chief Counsel to U.S. Sen. Cory A. Booker; Chief Counsel on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism.3 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)2 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 8 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
