27 filings from 2 registrants · 2020–2025 · latest filed Jan 16, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$430K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$430K
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
18 filings
$360K on those filings
Education
EDU
16 filings
$320K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 9029118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2624118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
Jean CornellPlurus Strategies, LLC12 filingsthrough 2025
David Joseph LeiterPlurus Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Wendell Ford; Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator John Kerry; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy12 filingsthrough 2025
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: edward-m-kennedy-institute.
$210K
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.
7 filings
$140K 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.
118th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025
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.
9 filingsthrough 2022
Mark MioduskiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff; House Approps Cmte (Obey)8 filingsthrough 2022
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 Cmte6 filingsthrough 2022
Christopher HodgsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant (Scalise), Floor Assistant & Deputy Floor Director for House Majority Whip (Scalise), Deputy Director & Director of Legislative Affairs (Pence)1 filingthrough 2022
William ToddCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Member Senate Approps Cmte, Legislative Aide, Legislative Asst, Dep Legislative Director Senate Member (Cochran)1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
