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.
Agriculture
AGR
72 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
43 filings
$1.2M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2019
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Senate Ag Cmte, Dep UndSec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte42 filingsthrough 2019
Mark William MurrayCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff House Cmte Office41 filingsthrough 2018
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies30 filingsthrough 2026
Alice Joan Gomez
The filings
The 20 most recent of 73 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: global-crop-diversity-trust.
$580K
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2020
2 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 8771118th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20251 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 8998118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20251 filingthrough 2024
S. 4690118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20251 filingthrough 2024
S. 4797118th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20251 filingthrough 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.
Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
23 filingsthrough 2019
Samantha BuchalterThe Russell Group, Inc.20 filingsthrough 2026
Fred James ClarkCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep Chief Counsel, House Ag Committee19 filingsthrough 2013
Joseph BischoffCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.13 filingsthrough 2019
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Boehner9 filingsthrough 2021
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2019
Mark William MurrayMwmurray Consulting LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, House Committee3 filingsthrough 2019
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern1 filingthrough 2019
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)1 filingthrough 2019
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 2019
Covered positions · 9 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
