43 filings from 2 registrants · 2013–2024 · latest filed Feb 4, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
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.
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.
Natural Resources
NAT
37 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
23 filings
$834K 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 — 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 687113th CongressSoutheast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 339113th CongressSoutheast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 20136 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC40 filingsthrough 2022
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-200640 filingsthrough 2022
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: LA/Comm Dir, Rep. Jim Gibbons August 1997-September 2000Staff Dir House SubComm on Energy May 2004 - March 2006Policy Advisor, Majority Leader John Boehner Mar2006-Dec06Policy Advisor, Minority Leader John Boehner Jan2007-Dec10Asst Policy Speaker John Boehner January 2011 - May 1, 201140 filingsthrough 2022
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Director SubComm Financial Institutions 2002 - 2006Senior Policy Advisor Senator Robert F. Bennett 2007-2010
The filings
The 20 most recent of 43 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: resolution-copper.
spend on filings that named this issue
40 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, 2014-201530 filingsthrough 2022
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 201422 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, 2017-201817 filingsthrough 2022
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC17 filingsthrough 2017
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Conf coordinator, House Republican Conference 1999-2000Office Manager, Majority Whip Tom Delay 2000-2003Finance Director, Majority Leader Tom Delay 2003-2005Congressional liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006-201017 filingsthrough 2017
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 1994-199716 filingsthrough 2020
Deborah PryceCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Member of U.S. Congress (OH-15) 1993 - 200914 filingsthrough 2016
Alex RenjelCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Research Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 2007-201312 filingsthrough 2022
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 - 2007.12 filingsthrough 2022
Katie Rae MitchellCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Paul Cook - Jan 2014-Nov 2014 Intern, Rep. Devin Nunes - Aug 2013-Dec 201311 filingsthrough 2019
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 Boehner11 filingsthrough 2017
Michael FreemanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel for Sen. Mike Lee, Oct. 2011- Jan. 2014; Counsel, House Natural Resources Committee - Jan. 2014 - May 20179 filingsthrough 2019
Amber KirchhoeferCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Joint Economic Committee 2001-2002; Legislative Assistant, Policy Adviser, Senior Policy Adviser, Legislative Director - Sen. Robert F. Bennett 2002-2010; Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff - Sen. Pat Roberts 2011-20208 filingsthrough 2022
Tim PatakiCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Assistant to the President, Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2019 - January 2021)7 filingsthrough 2022
Fred DuvalDuval and Associates1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 16 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
