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.
Defense
DEF
42 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$500K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
James GentryC2 Strategies27 filingsthrough 2026
Brendan KretzschmarC2 StrategiesCovered position: LA House Member Office (Holden)27 filingsthrough 2026
John A. LeggieriCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2022
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)12 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: gm-defense-llc.
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.
6 filings
$250K 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.
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 Cmte9 filingsthrough 2022
Connie LarossaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LD, Dept. of Defense Office of Counternarcotics & Global Threats; LD, Dept. of Homeland Security Intelligence & Analysis Office and Domestic Nuclear Detection Office; Deputy Asst Sec. for House Affairs at the Dept. of Homeland Security9 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel WagnerC2 Strategies8 filingsthrough 2024
Michael HersonAmerican Defense International6 filingsthrough 2023
Joseph BartonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Boehner)6 filingsthrough 2022
William ToddCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Member Senate Approps Cmte, Legislative Aide, Legislative Asst, Dep Legislative Director Senate Member (Cochran)6 filingsthrough 2021
Josh MartinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep Mac Thornberry, Health Policy Director to Senator Richard Burr, Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff to Congressman Michael Burgess5 filingsthrough 2023
Patrick Michael LargeAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep Steve Palazzo, Legislative Assistant to Rep. Sullivan, Legislative Correspondent to Rep. Charles Boustany4 filingsthrough 2023
Steve MarcheseCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor (State); Senior Staff, House Approps Cmte3 filingsthrough 2022
Matt SchnappaufCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2022
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)1 filingthrough 2021
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.1 filingthrough 2020
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff; House Approps (Lewis, Young, Livingston)1 filingthrough 2020
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)1 filingthrough 2020
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)1 filingthrough 2020
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)1 filingthrough 2020
Victoria MarumCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 15 of 22 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
