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: u-s-travel-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.
234 filings
$52.1M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
234 filings
$49.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
207 filings
$49M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
205 filings
$42.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
128 filings
$24M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
94 filings
$25.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
59 filings
$24.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
39 filings
$25.7M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
25 filings
$18.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
25 filings
$10.5M 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.
118th Congress
FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024
25 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1996116th CongressSecure Travel Partnership Act of 201925 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 202124 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1225116th CongressRestore Our Parks and Public Lands Act24 filingsthrough 2020
S. 500116th CongressRestore Our Parks Act24 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 202423 filingsthrough 2024
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.
through 2021
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-200649 filingsthrough 2025
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: LA/Comm Dir, Rep. Jim Gibbons August 1997 - September 2000Staff Dir House SubComm Energy May 2004-March 2006Policy Adv, Majority Leader John Boehner Mar2006-Dec2006Policy Adv, Minority Leader John Boehner Jan2007-Dec2010Asst Policy, Speaker John Boehner January 2011-May 1, 201149 filingsthrough 2025
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Director SubCommittee Financial Institutions 2002-2006Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Robert F. Bennett 2007-201045 filingsthrough 2024
Alma Patricia RojasU.S. Travel AssociationCovered position: Professional Staff Member, Senate HSGAC45 filingsthrough 2018
Brian DiffellThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Policy Adv., Sen. Rep. Conference: Leg. Director Sen. Blunt; Leg. Dir. Rep. Blunt; Sr. Policy Adv. Rep. Maj. Whip; Sr. Policy Adv. House Maj. Whip; Research Analyst, House Maj. Whip; Spec. Asst to the Chief Deputy Whip Blunt42 filingsthrough 2023
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, 2014-201541 filingsthrough 2025
Rich ThomasMonument AdvocacyCovered position: and Legislative Director Rep. Bill Pascrell38 filingsthrough 2018
Kimberly EllisMonument AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Trade Representative36 filingsthrough 2020
Victoria E. BarnesU.S. Travel Association34 filingsthrough 2025
Israel S KleinKLEIN/JOHNSON GroupCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Joint Economic Committee, Chairman Chuck Schumer; Senior Communications Advisor, Representative Ed Markey; Communications Director, Senator Chuck Schumer; Press Secretary and Legislative Assistant, Representative Ed Markey33 filingsthrough 2025
Matthew Lee JohnsonKLEIN/JOHNSON GroupCovered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. John Cornyn; Senate Judiciary Committee33 filingsthrough 2025
John ScofieldS-3 GroupCovered position: Dep Press Sec, US Sen Mark Hatfield; Press Sec, Rep. Frank LoBiondo; Comms Dir, House Approps31 filingsthrough 2024
David ReidBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP30 filingsthrough 2026
John MulliganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Smith30 filingsthrough 2021
Geoffrey Grant BurrBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff at US DOT; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs at US DOL28 filingsthrough 2026
Steven C SchwadronSankofa Consulting StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, former Rep. Bill Delahunt28 filingsthrough 2018
Kevin YoderVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Intern, Rep. Jerry Moran; Special Asst, Office of Counternarcotics, U.S. Dept of Defense27 filingsthrough 2026
Rashid HallawayVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh26 filingsthrough 2026
Brad GentileHill East Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. John Katko; Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. Chris Gibson; Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Rep. John Boehner26 filingsthrough 2026
Kate DickensS-3 GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, US Sen Mark Kirk; Leg Director, Rep. Mike Castle; Foreign Policy Adv, Rep. Connie Morella26 filingsthrough 2024
Thomas Allen HawksMonument Advocacy26 filingsthrough 2021
Will BrownU.S. Travel Association25 filingsthrough 2023
Zachary HowellHill East Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. John Katko, Deputy Chief of Staff - Rep. John Katko, Legislative Director - Rep. John Katko, Legislative Assistant - Rep. Ron DeSantis, Communications Director - Rep. Kay Granger, Press Secretary - Rep. Ben Quayle24 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 85 of 134 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
