62 filings from 5 registrants · 2010–2018 · latest filed Dec 21, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
25 filings
$900K on those filings
Retirement
RET
17 filings
$640K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3656112th CongressRetirement Savings Security Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2014
John CrumblissCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2014
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Approps Assoc House Member Office16 filingsthrough 2014
Paul Edward DininoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep COS Senate Member Office16 filingsthrough 2014
The filings
The 20 most recent of 62 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: custodia-financial.
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.
TAX
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
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.
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: GC, Office of the Speaker; GC, Committee on House Oversight ; ; Minority Counsel, Committee on House Administration
15 filingsthrough 2014
Geoff J GonellaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2014
JOHN F KELLY jrCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.13 filingsthrough 2013
Lisa MeyerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2012
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLP9 filingsthrough 2014
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Sen Fin Comm2 filingsthrough 2014
Andrew B LyonPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Dep. Asst. Secretary for Tax Analysis, Treasury Department ; ; Senior Economist, CEA, Exec. Office of the President2 filingsthrough 2013
John StellPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Economist, Congressional Budget Office2 filingsthrough 2013
