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.
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: global-payments-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.
TAX
20 filings
$870K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$150K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
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.
115th Congress
Financial CHOICE Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1241115th CongressCombating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 756113th CongressCybersecurity Enhancement Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1838118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 234114th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1996117th CongressSecure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1595116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1200116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2995114th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20164 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-20063 filingsthrough 2025
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 - 2007.3 filingsthrough 2025
Ja'Ron SmithCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Professional Policy Staff, Republican Study Committee 2011-2013; Legislative Asst. to Senator Tim Scott 2013 - 2015; Member Services Staff, House Financial Services Committee 2015; Deputy Asst. and Special Asst. to President Donald Trump 2017-2020.3 filingsthrough 2025
David StewartBradley Arant Boult Cummings LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jeff Sessions3 filingsthrough 2020
Helen TolarTroutman StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator John Boozman3 filingsthrough 2018
Hr Bert PenaTroutman StrategiesCovered position: Staff Director of US House Committee on Agriculture3 filingsthrough 2017
Madison RoseGlobal Payments, Inc.1 filingthrough 2026
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, 2014-2015.1 filingthrough 2025
Benjamin Craig NobleTroutman Strategies1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 13 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
