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.
Defense
DEF
19 filings
$670K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
19 filings
$670K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20191 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)19 filingsthrough 2022
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)13 filingsthrough 2022
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff; House Approps (Lewis, Young, Livingston)8 filingsthrough 2020
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 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: citadel-defense-company.
115th Congress
John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
1 filingthrough 2018
S. 3159115th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 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.
Brian Hackler
Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Senate; State Director, U.S. Senate; Field Representative, U.S. Senate; Non-commissioned Officer, U.S. Marine Corps.
4 filingsthrough 2022
Marty FullerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2019
John BohananCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: District Director, Senior Advisor in House Member Office (Hoyer), Majority and Minority House Whip Office (Hoyer)3 filingsthrough 2019
Dana W. HudsonC6 Strategies, LLC (Fka Ms. Dana W. Hudson)3 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
