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: united-negro-college-fund.
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.
6 filings
$150K 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.
114th Congress
America's College Promise Act of 2015
4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1716114th CongressAmerica's College Promise Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2040110th CongressCivil Rights Act of 1964 Commemorative Coin Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 694110th CongressMinority Serving Institution Digital and Wireless Technology Opportunity Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1437110th CongressCivil Rights Act of 1964 Commemorative Coin Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1642110th CongressHigher Education Amendments of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1650110th CongressMax Cleland Minority Serving Institution Digital and Wireless Technology Opportunity Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3368114th CongressASPIRE Act2 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20091 filingthrough 2008
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.
Ja'Ron Smith
Cgcn Group, LLC
Covered 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 2017-2020.
7 filingsthrough 2026
William ShippsPenn Hill Group3 filingsthrough 2017
Aissa CancholaPenn Hill GroupCovered position: Policy Advisor/Legislative Aide/Staff Assistant, U.S. Senate HELP Committee; Staff Assistant, Senator Barbara Boxer3 filingsthrough 2017
