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.
Defense
DEF
65 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
49 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20212 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Will GoodmanApplied Research Associates, Inc.Covered position: Senior Defense Adviser, Office of Sen. Leahy, 2011-2013; Assistant for Plans to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas Security Affairs, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 2004- 2009.25 filingsthrough 2026
Marty FullerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.19 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 Cmte
The filings
The 20 most recent of 75 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-research-associates-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.
7 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
6 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$910K 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.
19 filingsthrough 2026
Maggie GendronApplied Research Associates, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff; Office of Sen. Patrick Leahy9 filingsthrough 2026
Jeremiah Van AukenAlcalde & FayCovered position: Senate Committee on Appropriations - Staff Assistant9 filingsthrough 2023
William ToddCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Member Senate Approps Cmte, Legislative Aide, Legislative Asst, Dep Legislative Director Senate Member (Cochran)7 filingsthrough 2023
John BohananCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: District Director, Senior Advisor in House Member Office (Hoyer), Majority and Minority House Whip Office (Hoyer)6 filingsthrough 2023
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)6 filingsthrough 2023
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)2 filingsthrough 2026
Suzanne SullivanSullivan Strategies LLC (Fka Sb Capitol Solutions)Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, US Department of Transportation, February 1997 - August 1998, Assistant Administrator for Government and Industry Affairs, Federal Aviation Administration, September 1998 - May 20022 filingsthrough 2026
Laura PastreApplied Research Associates, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant; Legislative Correspondent; Legislative Aide; Senior Legislative Aide; Legislative Assistant; National Security Advisor, Office of Senator Tom Carper2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 11 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
