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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
31 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
13 filings
$720K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
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)15 filingsthrough 2025
Matt SchnappaufCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.13 filingsthrough 2025
Ariel WolfVenable LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor, U.S. Senate, Office of Senator Sam Brownback; Counselor to the Deputy Secretary, Dept. of Transportation11 filingsthrough 2024
William SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc. 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 Cmte
The filings
The 20 most recent of 31 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: applied-intuition-inc.
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.
9 filings
$530K 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.
Covered position:
10 filingsthrough 2024
Misha LehrerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Legislative Aide, Sen. Chris Murphy9 filingsthrough 2026
Paul StimersHolland & Knight LLP9 filingsthrough 2026
Sean McglynnHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Asst., Asst. to Chief of Staff, Sen. Barbara Mikulski9 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak9 filingsthrough 2024
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)9 filingsthrough 2023
Marco M. SylvesterVenable LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor to Chief of Staff, Dept. of Transportation; Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Robert Pittenger8 filingsthrough 2024
David BonelliVenable LLPCovered position: Dept. of Transportation, NHTSA, Senior Attorney8 filingsthrough 2024
Joseph BartonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Boehner)7 filingsthrough 2023
Charles CarithersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Homeland (Thompson); Brookings Legis Fellow, Senate Homeland (Carper)6 filingsthrough 2024
Tess BrennanVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2024
Mike WakefieldHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Intern, Sen. John Warner; LA, Leg. Counsel, Rep. Mike Coffman; Military LA, Counsel, Sr. Counsel, Sen. Susan Collins; Professional Staff, Sr. Counsel, Senate Appropriations Cmte., Defense Subcmte.5 filingsthrough 2026
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2024
Rick ZampelliCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2024
John BohananCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: District Director, Senior Advisor in House Member Office (Hoyer), Majority and Minority House Whip Office (Hoyer)4 filingsthrough 2024
Simon CoonHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Special Assistant, Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs3 filingsthrough 2024
Richard Y HeggVenable LLP3 filingsthrough 2022
James ReillyVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Advisor, Chief of Staff, Senator Tom Carper3 filingsthrough 2022
Christian LeeCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: PSM-Detailee, Senate Appropriations Committee; House Liaison Assistant, Coast Guard House Liaison Office; Coast Guard Fellow, Select Committee on Homeland Security1 filingthrough 2024
Christopher HodgsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant (Scalise), Floor Assistant & Deputy Floor Director for House Majority Whip (Scalise), Deputy Director & Director of Legislative Affairs (Pence)1 filingthrough 2023
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)1 filingthrough 2022
William R NordwindVenable LLPCovered position: House Telecommunications Subcommittee, Counsel; Representative Upton, Legislative Director, Counsel, Deputy Chief of Staff; Representative Pryce, Legislative Director and Counsel; Representative Upton, Legislative Director and Counsel1 filingthrough 2022
William ToddCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Member Senate Approps Cmte, Legislative Aide, Legislative Asst, Dep Legislative Director Senate Member (Cochran)1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 22 of 28 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
