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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Natural Resources
NAT
71 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
71 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 875111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)53 filingsthrough 2026
Laverne Patrick HubertCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Min Chief Counsel, Senate Ag Cmte, Chief Counsel, LD & COS House Ag Cmte53 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Senate Ag Cmte, Dep UndSec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte36 filingsthrough 2022
FRANCIS BOYD jr
The filings
The 20 most recent of 71 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-sheep-industry-association.
$372K
fees reported
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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.
70 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
64 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Animals
ANI
58 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
57 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles
APP
19 filings
$372K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
9 filings
$260K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$100K 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
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Meyers and Associates
19 filingsthrough 2013
Alice Joan GomezCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.13 filingsthrough 2016
Macey HammerstromCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2026
Larry D MeyersMeyers and Associates7 filingsthrough 2013
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]6 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah RosascoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2026
Terry Van DorenCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Confidential Assistant, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of U.S. Senator Mike Johanns; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Republican Leader Mitch McConnell1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
