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: american-veterinary-medical-association.
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.
111 filings
$15.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
98 filings
$15.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
72 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
66 filings
$14.2M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
53 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
34 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF
24 filings
$4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
20 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Insurance
INS
11 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
11 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.
115th Congress
PAST Act
14 filingsthrough 2018
S. 487115th CongressVeterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program Enhancement Act14 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1101115th CongressSmall Business Health Fairness Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1429115th CongressLEADS Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 159115th CongressTo expand the workforce of veterinarians specialized in the care and conservation of wild animals and their ecosystems, and to develop educational programs focused on wildlife and zoological veterinary medicine.13 filingsthrough 2018
S. 796115th CongressEmployer Participation in Repayment Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
S. 976115th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1268115th CongressVeterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program Enhancement Act12 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1659115th CongressStop Taxing Death and Disability Act12 filingsthrough 2018
S. 405115th CongressStop Taxing Death and Disability Act12 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.
37 filings
through 2017
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)35 filingsthrough 2026
ASHLEY MORGAN dvmAmerican Veterinary Medical AssociationCovered position: Congressional Fellow, Senate H.E.L.P. Committee34 filingsthrough 2017
Christopher SarleyCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Policy Coordinator, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Policy Director, Sr Legis Asst, House Member Office (Shimkus); Sr Legis Asst, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, House Member Office (Hastert)29 filingsthrough 2024
John SandellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)26 filingsthrough 2025
Kevin HartleyAmerican Veterinary Medical Association25 filingsthrough 2026
Tarah Whitney TylerAmerican Veterinary Medical Association23 filingsthrough 2026
Lindsey HornickelAmerican Veterinary Medical Association20 filingsthrough 2026
Brian BallardBallard Partners18 filingsthrough 2026
Alexandra Khalife SandsAmerican Veterinary Medical Association17 filingsthrough 2020
Lauren StumpAmerican Veterinary Medical Association17 filingsthrough 2019
Whitney L MillerAmerican Veterinary Medical Association16 filingsthrough 2014
Tola ThompsonBallard PartnersCovered position: Communications Director and Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Carrie Meek (1993-2002); Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Al Lawson (2017-2021)13 filingsthrough 2024
Laverne Patrick HubertCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Min Chief Counsel, Senate Ag Cmte, Chief Consl, LD & COS House Ag Cmte12 filingsthrough 2024
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)10 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 Cmte9 filingsthrough 2024
Anthony LazarskiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Legislative Advisor, Senate Member Office (Inhofe); Professional Staff Member, Senate Armed Services Committee; Military Legislative Assistant, Senate Member Office (Inhofe)9 filingsthrough 2022
Lauren A Broccoli BurgessAmerican Veterinary Medical Association8 filingsthrough 2021
LOUIE PERRY iiiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Huckaby)8 filingsthrough 2019
Conor NoonanAmerican Veterinary Medical Association7 filingsthrough 2024
Paul GageAmerican Veterinary Medical Association6 filingsthrough 2026
John MelcherJohn Melcher5 filingsthrough 2009
Angela DemareeAmerican Veterinary Medical Association5 filingsthrough 2009
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Dave Camp ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Smith4 filingsthrough 2014
Bradley MolletCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff & Research Assistant, Sen. Tim Johnson ; ; Legislative Assistant, Cong. Jim Matheson ; ; Legislative Director, Congw. Betsy Markey4 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 15 of 35 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
