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.
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$50K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
4 filings
$50K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
S. 4543117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
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, LLC8 filingsthrough 2018
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Committee 2001-2003; Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-20068 filingsthrough 2018
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, Majority Leader Boehner Mar 2006-Dec 2006; Policy Advisor, Minority Leader Boehner Jan 2007-Dec 2010; Asst Policy Speaker Boehner Jan 2011-May 1, 20118 filingsthrough 2018
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Robert F. Bennett 1999-2001; Staff Director Subcommittee Financial Institutions 2002-06; Senior Policy Advisor Sen. Robert F. Bennett 2007-10
The filings
The 20 most recent of 87 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: heartland-solutions-group-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.
4 filings
$28K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$13K on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$30K 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.
8 filingsthrough 2018
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 20148 filingsthrough 2018
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, 2014-20158 filingsthrough 2018
James M CrumVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Dir/PCO, Department of Army, Department of Acquisition, Logistics, Tech5 filingsthrough 2022
Katie Rae MitchellCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2018
Michael FreemanCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2018
Juliane C SullivanCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2018
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2016
Deborah PryceCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress (OH-15) 1993-20094 filingsthrough 2016
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Finance Director, Majority Leader Tom Delay 2003-2005; Congressional liaison, US Trade & Development Agency 2006-20104 filingsthrough 2016
Michael J CatanzaroCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Senate Environmental & Public Works Committee; Senior Policy Advisor, Speaker John Boehner4 filingsthrough 2016
Daniel MattoonMattoon & Associates, LLC3 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 9 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
