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: the-walt-disney-company.
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.
TRD
34 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
32 filings
$1M on those filings
Advertising
ADV
22 filings
$200K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
18 filings
$890K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
17 filings
$850K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
12 filings
$650K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$30K 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.
113th Congress
Protecting Financial Aid for Students and Taxpayers Act
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 722112th CongressSay No to Drug Ads Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 6943118th CongressNo AI FRAUD Act3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1741114th CongressTruth in Healthcare Marketing Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2831113th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for marketing directed at children to promote the consumption of food of poor nutritional quality.3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2342113th CongressStop Subsidizing Childhood Obesity Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 9551118th CongressNO FAKES Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1284113th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20142 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1409119th CongressPublic Safety Officer Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act of 20251 filingthrough 2026
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.
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, 201152 filingsthrough 2025
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC46 filingsthrough 2024
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-200646 filingsthrough 2024
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Director SubComm Financial Institutions 2002 - 2006Senior Policy Advisor Senator Robert F. Bennett 2007-201046 filingsthrough 2024
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, 2014-201542 filingsthrough 2025
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 - 2007.26 filingsthrough 2026
Paul PoteetFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)22 filingsthrough 2026
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, 2017-201819 filingsthrough 2023
Robert W GoodlatteGoodlatte Group, LLC F.K.A. Robert GoodlatteCovered position: Member of Congress 1993-201918 filingsthrough 2026
Alex RenjelCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Research Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 2007-201318 filingsthrough 2024
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
Megan MooreFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Special Advisor to the Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency; Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of the Treasury; Special Assistant, Department of the Treasury; Legislative Assistant, House of Representatives, Office of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr16 filingsthrough 2026
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
Jason C. ScismBridge Street Group, LLCCovered position: Rep John Mica - Special Project Coord(6/98-10/98) and Leg Asst (10/98 - 11/98); House Commerce Comm - Staff Asst - 11/98-7/99;Clerk - 7/99 - 8/2000; Rep Darrell Issa Counsel 3/2005-5/2010 and Leg Dir, 4/08 -5/10; Oversight Comm, Counsel 08/08-12/0816 filingsthrough 2018
Matthew BarblanGoodlatte Group, LLC F.K.A. Robert Goodlatte15 filingsthrough 2026
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 2011-202014 filingsthrough 2024
Deborah PryceCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Member of U.S. Congress (OH-15) 1993 - 200914 filingsthrough 2016
Tim PatakiCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Assistant to the President, Director, Office of Public Liaison, Executive Office of the President (Jan. 2019 - January 2021)11 filingsthrough 2023
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
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 2017-20209 filingsthrough 2026
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
Covered positions · 34 of 46 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
