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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Banking
BAN
39 filings
$860K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
21 filings
$444K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 34 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2513116th CongressCorporate Transparency Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Committee 2001-2003; Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-200645 filingsthrough 2021
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, 201140 filingsthrough 2021
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 41 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: northern-trust-company.
TAX
11 filings
$245K on those filings
Retirement
RET
10 filings
$215K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
5 filings
$119K on those filings
Insurance
INS
4 filings
$83K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
3 filings
$72K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$24K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$24K 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.
116th Congress
Stop Wall Street Looting Act
4 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2121115th CongressPension, Endowment, and Mutual Fund Access to Banking Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1484114th CongressFinancial Regulatory Improvement Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
S. 754114th CongressAn act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1994116th CongressSetting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3548116th CongressCARES Act3 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.3 filingsthrough 2018
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.
36 filingsthrough 2021
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC28 filingsthrough 2017
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Finance Director, Majority Leader Tom Delay 2003-2005; Congressional liaison, US Trade & Development Agency 2006-201024 filingsthrough 2017
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, 2014-201523 filingsthrough 2021
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 201422 filingsthrough 2019
Juliane C SullivanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Appropriations Adviser, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, 1999-2003 Senior Legislative Assistant, Appropriations, Rep Anne Northup, 1997-1999 Legislative Assistant, Rep Ed Whitfield 1994-199717 filingsthrough 2020
Deborah PryceCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress (OH-15) 1993-200913 filingsthrough 2016
Katie Rae MitchellCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Paul Cook - Jan 2014-Nov 2014 Intern, Rep. Devin Nunes - Aug 2013-Dec 201312 filingsthrough 2019
Aaron L SzaboCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Analyst, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2008 - 2014; Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 2014-2017; Senior Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality, 2017-201810 filingsthrough 2021
Michael FreemanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel for Sen. Mike Lee, Oct. 2011- Jan. 2014; Counsel, House Natural Resources Committee - Jan. 2014 - May 201710 filingsthrough 2019
Michael J CatanzaroCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Speaker John Boehner10 filingsthrough 2017
Alex RenjelCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Research Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 2007-20135 filingsthrough 2021
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 - 2007.5 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 14 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
