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.
Luke HarmsWhirlpool Corporation57 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah BovimWhirlpool CorporationCovered position: Deputy US Trade Rep for Industry55 filingsthrough 2021
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC33 filingsthrough 2020
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Committee 2001-2003;
Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-2006
The filings
The 20 most recent of 186 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: whirlpool-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
90 filings
$16.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
90 filings
$14.7M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
33 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
32 filings
$6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
29 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Retirement
RET
18 filings
$4M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
15 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
15 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
11 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
10 filings
$2.2M 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.
110th Congress
Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008
9 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2045110th CongressCPSC Reform Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4856113th CongressEnergy Star Program Integrity Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1982116th CongressSave Our Seas 2.0 Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1682115th CongressEnergy Star Program Integrity Act5 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2754116th CongressAmerican Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
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.
33 filingsthrough 2020
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: LC, Rep. Bob Barr, Jan 1997- Aug 1997;
LA/Comm Director, Rep. Jim Gibbons Aug 1997-Sep 2000;
Staff Director House Subcommittee on Energy May 2004-Mar 2006;; 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, 201133 filingsthrough 2020
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 2007-10
Professional Staff Member, Senate Banking Committee 2007-1028 filingsthrough 2020
Gary LytleCgcn Group, LLC23 filingsthrough 2017
Amy WrenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Conf Coordinator, House Republican Conference 1999-2000Office Manager, Majority Whip Tom Delay 2000-03Finance Director, Majority Leader Tom Delay 2003-05Congressional Liaison, US Trade & Dev Agency 2006-1023 filingsthrough 2017
Justin MccarthyTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, Leg. Affairs23 filingsthrough 2016
Jason S EbersteinWhirlpool Corporation19 filingsthrough 2016
Sheila MurphyTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Senator Daschle17 filingsthrough 2016
John StipicevicCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Intern/Staff Assistant, Majority Whip Roy Blunt, 2003-2006;
Floor Assistant, Republican Whip Roy Blunt, 2007-2008;
Floor Assistant, Republican Whip Eric Cantor, 2009-2010;; Director of Floor Operations, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, 2011-2014;
Deputy Chief of Staff for Floor and Member Services, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, 2014-201516 filingsthrough 2020
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Asst Secretary of Energy, Department of Energy, 2003-04
Associate Director, Office of Cabinet Affairs, The White House, 2004-05
Chief of Staff, Office of Under Secretary of Energy, Department of Energy, 2005-09; Policy Director/Counsel, Office of Conference Chairman 2009;
Deputy Staff Director, Senate Republican Policy Committee 2009-2010;
Staff Director, Senate Republican Policy Committee 2010-2012;; Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014;
Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 201416 filingsthrough 2019
Peter MadiganTiber Creek GroupCovered position: CoS, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick16 filingsthrough 2015
Jonathon JonesTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Carper16 filingsthrough 2015
Dawn LevyCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel to Sen. Max Baucus14 filingsthrough 2011
John Michael GonzalezTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean13 filingsthrough 2015
Andrew MckechnieTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Bipartisan Medical Technology Caucus12 filingsthrough 2014
Sean MackayWhirlpool CorporationCovered position: N/A12 filingsthrough 2011
Martin RussoCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Member of Congress12 filingsthrough 2010
Justin MccarthyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Spec. Asst to Pres for leg affairs, exec ofc of pres, jan08-dec08; asst.
USTR for congress. affairs, exec. Offc of pres, jan06-dec07; asst. USTR
for intergov. & pub affairs, exec offc of pres, sep05-may06; leg asst, rep
Thomas ewing, jan96-jul98.11 filingsthrough 2020
Juliane C SullivanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce, 2013-2017;
Senior Policy Adviser, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, 2005-2013;
Policy Director, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, 2003-2005;; Senior Appropriations Adviser, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, 1999-2003;
Senior Legislative Assistant, Appropriations, Rep Anne Northup, 1997-1999;
Legislative Assistant, Rep Ed Whitfield 1994-199711 filingsthrough 2020
Andrew EhrlichFaegre Baker Daniels11 filingsthrough 2015
Laura SiegristWhirlpool Corporation10 filingsthrough 2018
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 Boehner10 filingsthrough 2017
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, JCT9 filingsthrough 2012
