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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
69 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
65 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Agriculture
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 3240113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3240117th CongressFree Veterans from Fees Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3240116th CongressTrafficking Survivors Relief Act of 20208 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep UndSec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte73 filingsthrough 2026
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Mem Office (Skeen & Bonilla)71 filingsthrough 2025
LOUIE PERRY iiiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Huckaby)69 filingsthrough 2026
Laverne Patrick HubertCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 112 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: cobank.
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.
AGR
54 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Banking
BAN
38 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$260K 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.
through 2020
S. 3240115th CongressBotanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3240114th CongressPension and Budget Integrity Act of 20168 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4736118th CongressInvesting in Rural America Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5631118th CongressProducer and Agricultural Credit Enhancement Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 648118th CongressAgriculture Export Promotion Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
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: Min Chief Counsel, Senate Ag Cmte, Chief Counsel, LD & COS House Ag Cmte
45 filingsthrough 2025
Zachary PfisterBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: LegDir Rep Larry Kissell; SenLegAsst Rep Larry Kissell; LegAsst Rep Larry Kissell; LegCorrespondent Rep Larry Kissell; LegCorrespondent Rep Brad Ellsworth; StaffAsst Rep Brad Ellsworth; LegIntern Sen Evan Bayh40 filingsthrough 2026
Fred James ClarkCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel House Ag Cmte (Boozman); Sr Counsel & Chief Counsel Ag Cmte (Roberts)29 filingsthrough 2025
Brian WildBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor-Office of Speaker John Boehner; Deputy Assistant for Leg Affairs- VP Cheney; Chief of Staff-Rep. Pat Toomey; Legislative Assistant- Sen. Hank Brown26 filingsthrough 2023
Brian MckeonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide - Sen Boxer; Legislative Assistant - Sen Boxer; Domestic Policy Advisor - Sen Boxer; Senior Advisor - Sen Boxer; Senior Counsel - Sen Boxer; Legislative Director - Senator Shaheen16 filingsthrough 2021
Elizabeth M GoreBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff Sen Byron Dorgan, Legislative Dir Sen Byron Dorgan, Spec Asst for Legislative Affairs OMB, Legislative Dir Rep Chet Edwards, Economist US House Committee on Budget8 filingsthrough 2018
Mark RokalaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2010
Lauren Page FlynnBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: House Approps Comm, Clerk/Staff Dir, Fin Services; Senate Approps Comm, Clerk/Staff Director, Fin Services; Sen John Kennedy, Sr Policy Advisor; Treasury, Dep Assist Secretary; Senate Approps, Prof Staff, Fin Services; GAO, Sr Analyst; GAO, Intern6 filingsthrough 2026
Margaret LindenCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2024
Greta JoynesBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director Rep. John Shimkus, Senior Legislative Assistant Rep. John Shimkus, Legislative Assistant Rep. John Shimkus, Legislative Correspondent Rep. John Shimkus, Staff Assistant Rep. John Shimkus5 filingsthrough 2019
Travis J NortonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Tim Scott; Staff Dir, Senate Banking Subcomm. on Housing, Transportation, and Community Develop; General Counsel & Parliamentarian, House Financial Services Comm; General Counsel & Parliamentarian, House Judiciary Comm5 filingsthrough 2017
Timothy SandersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, House Approps Committee5 filingsthrough 2009
Joby YoungHorizons Global Solutions LLCCovered position: Schedule C - USDA, Legislative Aide - U.S. House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2021
Julie LasseterHorizons Global Solutions LLCCovered position: Schedule C - DOD, Legislative Aide - U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2021
David Forrest LasseterHorizons Global Solutions LLCCovered position: Schedule C - DOJ and DOD, Legislative Aide - U.S. House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2021
Lori HarjuBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor, House Ways & Means Comm; Chief of Staff, Rep Kevin Brady; Deputy Chief/Leg Dir, Rep Kevin Brady; Dir of Legisl and Intergovernmental Affairs, Internatl Trade Admin-US Dept of Commerce; Legisl Dir., Rep Philip Crane3 filingsthrough 2017
Prescott MartinCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep General Counsel, U.S. Dept of Ag; Senior Counsel, U.S. Dept of Ag; Chief Counsel, House Ag Cmte Majority; Chief Counsel, House Ag Cmte minority [Scott] Senior Counsel, House Ag Cmte [Peterson]; Counsel, House Ag Cmte [Peterson]2 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew UsykBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Leg Assistant, Sen. Robert Casey; Legislative Aide, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand; Compliance Officer, Sen. Gillibrand; Intern, Sen. Gillibrand and Rep. John Dingell1 filingthrough 2024
William MoschellaBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Associate Deputy Attorney General, DOJ; Asst Attorney General, DOJ; Chief Leg Counsel/Parliamentarian House Judiciary Committee1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 20 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
