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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
36 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
36 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.Res. 576115th CongressReaffirming the strategic partnership between the United States of America and the country of Georgia.2 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Tyler Brian NelsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office, Deputy Chief of Staff House Member Office, District Director (Olson)34 filingsthrough 2025
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)17 filingsthrough 2021
Tony EssalihCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS, LD, LA House Member Office (Culberson), LA House Member Office (Archer), SA House Member Office (Hastings), Intern House Member Office (Bliley)17 filingsthrough 2021
Todd Webster
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: frontera-resources-corporation.
$40K
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.
5 filings
$40K 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.
Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)
17 filingsthrough 2021
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 Cmte17 filingsthrough 2021
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)17 filingsthrough 2021
Anthony LazarskiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Legislative Advisor, Senate Member Office (Inhofe); Professional Staff Member, Senate Armed Services Committee; Military Legislative Assistant, Senate Member Office (Inhofe)17 filingsthrough 2021
Mark William MurrayCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff House Cmte Office7 filingsthrough 2018
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)7 filingsthrough 2018
Matt HawkinsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intern for Rep McCaul. Jul-Aug 12; staff assist, leg Corrspndnt for Rep
Carter, Sep 12-Dec 137 filingsthrough 2018
Stephen KhoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Associate General Counsel, Acting Chief Counsel for China Enforcement, USTR, 1998-2007; Legal Advisor, U.S. Mission to the WTO, 2002-20055 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 11 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
