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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
49 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)47 filingsthrough 2026
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.45 filingsthrough 2026
William SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Deputy Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assist, House Member Office (Rogers); Staff Assistant, Senate Approps Cmte29 filingsthrough 2026
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc. Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 49 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: act-for-nih-advancing-cures-today.
Covered position:
29 filingsthrough 2026
Mark MioduskiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff;House Approps Cmte (Obey)28 filingsthrough 2021
Erik FatemiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte (Byrd, Inouye, Mikulski)22 filingsthrough 2026
Campbell KaufmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff House Member Office (McCrery & Cooksey)20 filingsthrough 2019
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)19 filingsthrough 2018
LOUIE PERRY iiiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Huckaby)18 filingsthrough 2019
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Mem Office (Wicker)17 filingsthrough 2019
Timothy WolfmeyerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2019
Michael HigdonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Rogers);LA House Member Office (Bartlett); LC & CD House Member Office (Packard)10 filingsthrough 2016
Robin JulianoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Dir House Approps Cmte; Clerk House Labor-HHS Subcmte; Prof Staff House Labor-HHS Subcmte; Sr Policy Advr, Natl Economic Council, Exec Office of Pres; Prof Staff Senate Labor-HHS Subcmte; Educ Policy Advr HELP Cmte; Sr.LA(Sanders);LA(Mikulski)5 filingsthrough 2024
Amy SoudersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2015
Laura FriedelAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Senate Appropriations Committee - Clerk/Staff Director; Senator Richard Shelby - Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant; Senator Zell Miller - Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant.2 filingsthrough 2026
Ashley PalmerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep Asst Sec, Cong. Affairs, HHS; Prof Staff Mem, Senate Approp Cmte; Sr Policy Advisor, Coalitions and Mem Services Svcs Aide, House Budget Cmte; Sr Leg Assistant, Leg Asst, House Mem Office (Boehner); Leg Asst, Staff Asst, House Mem Office (Putna1 filingthrough 2026
Alexander GrafAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services; Senate Finance Health Subcommittee Staff Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Aide, Deputy Scheduler, Staff Assistant, Senator Debbie Stabenow.1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 14 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
