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: organization-for-international-investment.
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.
ECN
12 filings
$119K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$220K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$30K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$160K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$40K 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.
3 filings
through 2012
S. 3274112th CongressGlobal Investment in American Jobs Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3295111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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 2018.2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1314114th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2146114th CongressDefending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4679113th CongressStop Corporate Inversions Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2360113th CongressStop Corporate Inversions Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2786113th CongressCorporate Inverters Earnings Stripping Reform Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5278113th CongressNo Federal Contracts for Corporate Deserters Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 83113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20151 filingthrough 2014
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.
Cgcn Group, LLC
Covered position: Cong liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006-10
17 filingsthrough 2015
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLC16 filingsthrough 2015
Brian DiffellThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: oPolicy Adv., Sen. Rep. Conference: Leg. Director Sen. Blunt; Leg. Dir. Rep. Blunt; Sr. Policy Adv. Rep. Maj. Whip; Sr. Policy Adv. House Maj. Whip; Research Analyst, House Maj. Whip; Spec. Asst to the Chief Deputy Whip Blunt13 filingsthrough 2018
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor Sen Robert F. Bennett 2007-1012 filingsthrough 2015
Joseph BirkenstockCaplin & Drysdale, Chartered9 filingsthrough 2010
Gregory NickersonThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Dir., Ways&Means Subcom. on Select Reven.6 filingsthrough 2016
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 20144 filingsthrough 2015
Michael J CatanzaroCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Associate Deputy Administrator - Environmental Protection Agency; Deputy Staff Director, Senate Environmental & Public Works Committee; Senior Policy Advisor, Speaker John Boehner4 filingsthrough 2015
John MacphersonErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)3 filingsthrough 2015
Sarah Groothuis VilmsSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: CongKennelly90-91;SenLieb923 filingsthrough 2011
