27 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2023 · latest filed Oct 11, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$530K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$530K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
21 filings
$470K on those filings
Defense
DEF
20 filings
$460K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3684118th CongressDouglas Mike Day Psychedelic Therapy to Save Lives Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2023
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.
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)22 filingsthrough 2023
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)22 filingsthrough 2023
Matthew HinchCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Correspondent, Director in House Member Office (Latham)22 filingsthrough 2023
David AdelmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: city-of-des-moines.
$60K
fees reported
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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.
ECN
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
1 filing
$10K 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.
22 filingsthrough 2023
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff; House Approps (Lewis, Young, Livingston)6 filingsthrough 2020
Nathaniel Jameson PotterGordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental AffairsCovered position: LC - Senator Patty Murray & SA - Rep Jay Inslee6 filingsthrough 2009
DALE LEARN esqGordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental AffairsCovered position: LA - Senator Patty Murray & Rep Adam Smith6 filingsthrough 2009
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 Cmte1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 7 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
