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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
60 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
31 filings
$930K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Senate Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte63 filingsthrough 2026
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)33 filingsthrough 2018
Campbell KaufmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff House Member Office (McCrery & Cooksey)25 filingsthrough 2016
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc. LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 60 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: c-spire.
spend on filings that named this issue
118th Congress
Retreaded Truck Tire Jobs, Supply Chain Security and Sustainability Act of 2024
5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5166119th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4664118th CongressMaking appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2309118th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8773119th CongressContaining Effects of Mineral Extraction Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 3290119th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8773118th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8254117th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8294117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4685117th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Covered position:
25 filingsthrough 2016
Joseph BartonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Boehner)17 filingsthrough 2016
Daniel Edison FlemingCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2013
Nelson PeacockCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Counsel Sen Jud Cmte; Assist Sec Dept of Homeland4 filingsthrough 2014
Michael HigdonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Rogers); LA House Member Office (Bartlett) LC & CD House Member Office (Packard)1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 7 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
