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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
17 filings
$1.9M 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.
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.
Elizabeth WroeFix the Debt Coalition, Inc.Covered position: 2008-2011 Health Policy Director, US Senate Committee9 filingsthrough 2014
Cynthia BrownFix the Debt Coalition, Inc.Covered position: 2003-2009 Chief of Staff Congressman Ron Kind6 filingsthrough 2014
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: fix-the-debt-coalition-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.
through 2024
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2013
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2013
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-20064 filingsthrough 2013
Deborah PryceCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2013
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: LA/Comm Dir Rep Jim Gibbons August 1997 - September 2000Staff Dir House SubComm Energy May 2004 - March 2006Policy Adv. Majority Leader John Boehner Mar 2006-Dec 2006Policy Adv. Minority Leader John Boehner Jan 2007-Dec 2010Asst Policy Speaker John Boehner January 2011 - May 1, 20114 filingsthrough 2013
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Director, SubComm Financial Institutions 2002 - 2006Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Robert F. Bennett 2007 - 20104 filingsthrough 2013
Campbell SpencerThe Campbell Spencer GroupCovered position: 2010 - 2011 White House Midwest Political Director4 filingsthrough 2013
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Conf coordinator, House Republican Conference 1999 - 2000Office Manager, Majority Whip Tom Delay 2000 - 2003Finance Director, Majority Leader Tom Delay 2003 - 2005Congressional Liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006 - 20104 filingsthrough 2013
Nathaniel HoopesFix the Debt Coalition, Inc.Covered position: 2010-2013 Legislative Director Senator Scott Brown3 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 9 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
