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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
11 filings
$465K on those filings
Retirement
RET
11 filings
$465K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3656112th CongressRetirement Savings Security Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3656113th CongressSmall Business and Community Investments Expansion 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC12 filingsthrough 2014
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC12 filingsthrough 2014
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-0612 filingsthrough 2014
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: LA/Comm Director, Rep Jim Gibbons Aug 1997-Sep 2000Staff Dir, Hse SubCom Energy&Min Resources May04 - Mar06Policy Advisor, Majority Leader John Boehner Mar06 - Dec06Policy Advisor, Minority Leader John Boehner Jan07 - Dec10Ast for Policy to Speaker John Boehner Jan 2011-May 1, 201112 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 23 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: custodia-financial-llc.
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.
TAX
7 filings
$90K 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.
through 2014
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Conf coordinator, House Republican Conference 1999-2000Office Manager, Majority Whip Tom Delay 2000-03Finance Director, Majority Leader Tom Delay 2003-05Congressional liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006-1012 filingsthrough 2014
Patrick RaffanielloRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster6 filingsthrough 2021
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor Sen Robert F. Bennett 2007-106 filingsthrough 2014
Deborah PryceCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2014
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard Neal.3 filingsthrough 2021
Timothy Lloyd HanfordRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
