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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
25 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
25 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.27 filingsthrough 2020
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Ast House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)27 filingsthrough 2020
Tony EssalihCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS, LD, LA House Member Office (Culberson); LA House Member Office (Archer); SA Member Office (Hastings); Intern House Member Office (Bliley)27 filingsthrough 2020
Alice Joan GomezCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.17 filingsthrough 2017
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: citgo.
20 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
6 filings
$630K on those filings
Education
EDU
2 filings
$280K 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.
114th Congress
Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act
5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2576114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2142114th CongressWorkplace Democracy Act1 filingthrough 2015
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.
Timothy WolfmeyerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.15 filingsthrough 2017
Tyler Brian NelsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office, Deputy Chief of Staff House Member Office, District Director (Olson)14 filingsthrough 2020
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)13 filingsthrough 2020
Campbell KaufmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff House Member Office (McCrery & Cooksey)13 filingsthrough 2017
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)11 filingsthrough 2017
John CrumblissCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2017
Denise BodeCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2016
Michael HigdonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Rogers); LA House Member Office (Bartlett) LC & CD House Member Office (Packard)9 filingsthrough 2016
Paul Edward DininoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff Senate Mem Office (Reid)9 filingsthrough 2015
Nelson PeacockCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Counsel sen jud cmte;assist sec dept homeland4 filingsthrough 2014
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 10 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
