60 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2025 · latest filed Aug 14, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
59 filings
$1.5M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 24 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 45118th CongressSmall Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act11 filingsthrough 2024
S. 45118th CongressSmall Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act11 filingsthrough 2024
Patrick G. HeckCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senate Finance Comm:Chief Democratic Tax Counsel; Sen. Finance Comm.: Tax Counsel/Chief Investigative Counsel; House Committee on Ways and Means:Assistant Counsel.31 filingsthrough 2024
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young; Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.; Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.22 filingsthrough 2024
Noelle MontanoVenn StrategiesCovered position: Leg. Director - Rep. Bill Archer
The filings
The 20 most recent of 60 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: professional-beauty-association.
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.
117th Congress
Small Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1349116th CongressSmall Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1233117th CongressSmall Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2634116th CongressSmall Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act5 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 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3016110th CongressSmall Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2603119th CongressSmall Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1998119th CongressSmall Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 6736115th CongressSmall Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act2 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.
22 filingsthrough 2015
Lawrence WillcoxCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Dir., Senate Republican Policy Committee; Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Sen. Jon Kyl; Tax Counsel, Rep. Sam Johnson.20 filingsthrough 2022
Sara SkubikowskiVenn Strategies18 filingsthrough 2015
Melissa Francis (Formerly Bonicelli)Venn StrategiesCovered position: Leg. Director - Rep. Bill Archer14 filingsthrough 2013
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, 2014-20156 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 - 20076 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 2017-20206 filingsthrough 2025
Charles J MellodyCapitol Legislative Strategies LLCCovered position: Assistant to Chairman, House Ways and Means2 filingsthrough 2009
Tim PatakiCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Assistant to the President, Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2019 - January 2021)1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 12 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
