Connected Nation Development Corporation — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Connected Nation Development Corporation
Kentucky
73 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2023 · latest filed Oct 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$410K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$660K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
40 filings
$720K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
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: connected-nation-development-corporation.
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.
through 2020
H.R. 3919110th CongressBroadband Census of America Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1190110th CongressConnect The Nation Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1439110th CongressRural Broadband Improvement Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1492110th CongressBroadband Data Improvement Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2302110th CongressFood and Energy Security Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3627110th CongressConnect The Nation Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1685113th CongressBroadband Adoption Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Covered position: CoS, Sen. McConnell, 2000-02; Legal Cnsl, Sen. McConnell, 1999-00;
Chief Cnsl, Senate Rules Committee, 1997-99.
9 filingsthrough 2020
Lauren O'BrienRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisLegislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisLegislative Correspondent, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisStaff Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisIntern, Office of Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner8 filingsthrough 2014
Gordon Hunter Hunter BatesRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellLegal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellChief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee8 filingsthrough 2014
Michael HansonC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Congressman Sam Johnson8 filingsthrough 2010
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs8 filingsthrough 2010
Jefferies MurrayC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Congressman Bud Cramer8 filingsthrough 2010
John ClineC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President - Intergovernmental Affai8 filingsthrough 2010
Thomas CrawfordC2 Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2010
Phillip BrownConnected Nation Development Corporation8 filingsthrough 2009
G Hunter BatesC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Mitch McConnell7 filingsthrough 2010
Chase Watson HienemanRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Intern, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell3 filingsthrough 2014
G Hunter BatesBates Capitol Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellLegal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellChief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee3 filingsthrough 2012
Andrea SynborskiC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Assist. & Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Gregg3 filingsthrough 2010
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm1 filingthrough 2019
Sean D'ArcyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2018
John GillilandAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl trade cnsl, S Fin Comm, Feb 03-Jan 05; leg asst to Sen Lincoln, Jun 01-Feb 031 filingthrough 2018
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Press Secy, Dep Press Secy to Sen Inhofe1 filingthrough 2018
Chase W HienemanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Int, Sen. McConnell, May-June 2010.1 filingthrough 2018
