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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
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: mastercard-worldwide.
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
62 filings
$16.6M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
51 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
40 filings
$4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
35 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
21 filings
$6M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
19 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
17 filings
$850K on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM
14 filings
$980K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
8 filings
$560K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
8 filings
$240K 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.
118th Congress
Credit Card Competition Act of 2023
23 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1838118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 202323 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1165118th CongressData Privacy Act of 202319 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.11 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1081112th CongressConsumers Payment System Protection Act10 filingsthrough 2012
S. 575112th CongressDebit Interchange Fee Study Act of 201110 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4766118th CongressClarity for Payment Stablecoins Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6487118th CongressNo Fees for EFTs Act9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2281118th CongressLummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3805118th CongressNo Fees for EFTs Act9 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Andy LevinD-Michigan-AL
Bills: H.R. 3816, H.R. 5502
42 filings
5 lobbyists
Cheri BustosD-Illinois-AL
Bills: H.R. 3816
42 filings
5 lobbyists
Peter A. DeFazioD-Oregon-AL
Bills: H.R. 3816
42 filings
5 lobbyists
Brenda L. LawrenceD-Michigan-AL
Bills: H.R. 3816
30 filings
3 lobbyists
David N. CicillineD-Rhode Island-AL
Bills: H.R. 3816
30 filings
3 lobbyists
Marie NewmanD-Illinois-AL
Bills: H.R. 3816
30 filings
3 lobbyists
Jackie WalorskiR-Indiana-AL
Bills: H.R. 5502
24 filings
6 lobbyists
Peter MeijerR-Michigan-AL
Bills: H.R. 5502
24 filings
6 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLC56 filingsthrough 2022
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor Sen Robert F. Bennett 2007-1055 filingsthrough 2026
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLC54 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas M GannonMastercard Worldwide54 filingsthrough 2021
Kendra BrownMastercard WorldwideCovered position: Executive Assistant-Rep. Maxine Waters, Special Assistant and Counsel-Rep. Maxine Waters, Policy Director-The Congressional Black Caucus, Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director-Rep. Dwight Evans, Chief of Staff-Rep. G. K. Butterfield52 filingsthrough 2024
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC48 filingsthrough 2022
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, 2014-201543 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLC40 filingsthrough 2020
Brett DewittMastercard WorldwideCovered position: EA, Rep. D. Hastert 6/06-1/07, LC, Rep. P. English 2/07-7/08, LA, Rep. M. Turner 07/08-04/10, Committee Staff, Homeland Sec. Committee 4/10-1/15; Staff Dir. Homeland Sec. Committee 2/15-6-1737 filingsthrough 2023
Rachel KellyMastercard WorldwideCovered position: Rep. Derek Kilmer-Chief of Staff; Rep. Jim Himes-Deputy Chief of Staff; Legislative Director; Legislative Assistant35 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen SandoraMastercard WorldwideCovered position: House Committee on Financial Services-Professional Staff; US Department of the Treasury-Special Advisor; Senator Shelley Moore Capito-Legislative Assistant; Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick-Legislative Aide30 filingsthrough 2025
Scott RiplingerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (5) Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dean Heller, 2007 - 2011; Shared Employee and Staff Assistant, U.S. House Small Business Committee, Rep. Don Manzullo, 2005 - 2007.26 filingsthrough 2026
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC23 filingsthrough 2020
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Cong liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006-1023 filingsthrough 2017
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLC22 filingsthrough 2022
Nichole A. FrancisMastercard WorldwideCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Betty Sutton22 filingsthrough 2019
Paul S QuinnNossaman LLP22 filingsthrough 2016
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 201421 filingsthrough 2019
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon20 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 40 of 66 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
