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.
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.
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: starkey-hearing-technologies.
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.
34 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
32 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
19 filings
$955K 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.
13 filings
through 2024
Matthew T GersonFocus DC LLC13 filingsthrough 2024
Kathleen M McauliffeHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Counsel, House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt (1995-2000)10 filingsthrough 2020
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)6 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee (2003); Chief of Staff, Sen. Max
Baucus (1999-2002)6 filingsthrough 2022
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate6 filingsthrough 2022
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2014-2016); Senior
Aide and Director of Scheduling, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2006-2008); Staff
Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2005)6 filingsthrough 2022
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate6 filingsthrough 2022
Eduardo Ivan ZapienHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Chief of Staff to US Senator Robert Menendez 2003-2008; National Outreach Director for the House Democratic Caucus (2002-2003)6 filingsthrough 2021
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Max Baucus (2001-2004)5 filingsthrough 2022
Ryan McconaghyForbes-TateCovered position: Asst Sec for the Minority Sen (2017-2018) Staff Dir Dem Policy and Comms Ctr Sen (2014-2017) Policy Dir Dem Policy and Comms Ctr Sen (2012-2014) LD Rep Hall (2007-2009) LA Sen Schumer (2003-2006) LC Sen Schumer (2001-2003) SA Sen Schumer (1999-2000)5 filingsthrough 2021
Norm ColemanNormincCovered position: US Senator5 filingsthrough 2017
Saira Sultan ChiricoConnect 4 Strategies, LLCCovered position: Senate HELP Committee, Employment Subcommittee, Chief Counsel4 filingsthrough 2017
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2017
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Committee 2001-2003; Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-20063 filingsthrough 2017
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, 20113 filingsthrough 2017
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 2007-103 filingsthrough 2017
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 20143 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, 2014-20153 filingsthrough 2017
Katie Rae MitchellCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Paul Cook - Jan 2014-Nov 2014; Intern, Rep. Devin Nunes - Aug 2013-Dec 20133 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 1994-19973 filingsthrough 2017
Camille Judith LepireThe Petrizzo Group, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Congressman Kevin Brady2 filingsthrough 2022
Michael FreemanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel for Sen. Mike Lee, Oct. 2011- Jan. 2014; Counsel, House Natural Resources Committee - Jan. 2014 - May 20172 filingsthrough 2017
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2017
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff assistant, Congressman Todd Tiahrt 1997-99;
Conference coordinator, House Republican Conference 1999-2000;
Office Manager, Majority Whip Tom Delay 2000-2003;; Finance Director, Majority Leader Tom Delay 2003-2005;
Congressional liaison, US Trade & Development Agency 2006-20101 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 22 of 29 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
