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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: council-for-citizens-against-government-waste.
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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.
TEC
41 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
36 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
22 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
20 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
17 filings
$830K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
15 filings
$5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
14 filings
$540K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
13 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
13 filings
$1.6M 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.
116th Congress
Lower Health Care Costs Act
3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 849115th CongressProtecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3086113th CongressPermanent Internet Tax Freedom Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5353110th CongressInternet Freedom Preservation Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2284110th CongressFlood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2636110th CongressForeclosure Prevention Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S.Con.Res. 70110th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4132119th CongressPrescription Information Modernization Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4581119th Congress340B PATIENTS Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5457119th CongressStrengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5749119th CongressOfficial Time Reporting Act2 filingsthrough 2025
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.
Covered position:
11 filingsthrough 2020
Erica Laura GordonCouncil for Citizens Against Government Waste9 filingsthrough 2012
Philip AustinCouncil for Citizens Against Government WasteCovered position: Mgr Policy & government affairs8 filingsthrough 2014
Elizabeth Lee WrightCouncil for Citizens Against Government WasteCovered position: V.P. Government Affairs7 filingsthrough 2009
Grigory MenshikovCouncil for Citizens Against Government WasteCovered position: Federal Government Affairs Associate6 filingsthrough 2026
Cody Nicholas LeachCouncil for Citizens Against Government WasteCovered position: Federal Government Affairs Associate3 filingsthrough 2021
Rachel ColeCouncil for Citizens Against Government WasteCovered position: Assoc. Policy & Government Affairs1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
