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.
Kevin SchmidtSmiths Group Services CorporationCovered position: Dept. of Homeland Security,Director, Office of Legislative Affairs;House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Professional Staff; Rep. Henry Hyde, Legislative Assistant73 filingsthrough 2025
Lisa CegliaSmiths Group Services Corporation31 filingsthrough 2022
Chris SwongerSmiths Group Services CorporationCovered position: SVP, Government Relations26 filingsthrough 2017
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC18 filingsthrough 2015
The filings
The 20 most recent of 87 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: smiths-group-services-corporation.
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
56 filings
$17.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
46 filings
$19.9M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
45 filings
$19.6M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
45 filings
$19.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
41 filings
$15.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
32 filings
$13.3M on those filings
Torts
TOR
24 filings
$10.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
21 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
20 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
13 filings
$2.3M 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.
112th Congress
Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2011
11 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 184115th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 201810 filingsthrough 2018
S. 586117th CongressNOPAIN Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3178115th CongressMedicare Part B Improvement Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1738115th CongressMedicare Home Infusion Therapy Access Act of 20178 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.
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC18 filingsthrough 2015
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-0618 filingsthrough 2015
Elizabeth PressnellSmiths Group Services CorporationCovered position: VP, Government Relations18 filingsthrough 2015
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Cong liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006-1016 filingsthrough 2015
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLC15 filingsthrough 2015
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor Sen Robert F. Bennett 2007-1011 filingsthrough 2015
HASBROUCK B MILLER jrSmiths Group Services Corporation10 filingsthrough 2011
Lilia Lorrein RamirezSmiths Group Services Corporation7 filingsthrough 2018
Brooke ShermanSmiths Group Services Corporation6 filingsthrough 2025
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 20143 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 Boehner3 filingsthrough 2015
Timothy PicciottiSmiths Group Services Corporation2 filingsthrough 2008
Marilyn Joy RipinSmiths Group Services Corporation2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
