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.
Rita N HiteAmerican Forest FoundationCovered position: House Committee on Agriculture, Professional Staff69 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte31 filingsthrough 2026
LOUIE PERRY iiiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Huckaby)31 filingsthrough 2026
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc. COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 94 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: american-forest-foundation.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
31 filings
$972K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
30 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
24 filings
$668K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
19 filings
$579K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
8 filings
$144K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$145K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$113K on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$101K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$150K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$63K 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
Rural Heritage Conservation Extension Act of 2013
9 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1743118th CongressForest Data Modernization Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1380115th CongressTimber Innovation Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 962115th CongressEmpowering State Forestry to Improve Forest Health Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Sarah JewellAmerican Forest Foundation13 filingsthrough 2025
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)13 filingsthrough 2021
James MckitrickAmerican Forest FoundationCovered position: Intern, Office of Rep. Jeff Fortenberry; Staff Assistant, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget; Committee Staff Member; U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, Social Security Subcommittee10 filingsthrough 2024
Michael ReedAmerican Forest FoundationCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Sanford Bishop10 filingsthrough 2023
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff; House Approps (Lewis, Young, Livingston)9 filingsthrough 2020
Fred James ClarkCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Senior Counsel, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry8 filingsthrough 2025
Dianne NellorCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte; Prof. Staff Joint Econ. Cmte6 filingsthrough 2026
Prescott MartinCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep General Counsel, U.S. Dept of Ag; Senior Counsel, U.S. Dept of Ag; Chief Counsel, House Ag Cmte Majority; Chief Counsel, House Ag Cmte minority [Scott] Senior Counsel, House Ag Cmte [Peterson]; Counsel, House Ag Cmte [Peterson]4 filingsthrough 2026
