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.
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: google-client-services.
$2.7M
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.
CPI
38 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
38 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
38 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
38 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
26 filings
$3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
8 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$270K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$630K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$630K 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.
119th Congress
Stop the Censorship Act
4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1060119th CongressAMERICA Act4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1367119th CongressNO FAKES Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1748119th CongressKids Online Safety Act4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2153119th CongressOpen App Markets Act4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 414119th CongressADS for Mental Health Services Act4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 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.
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)
31 filingsthrough 2026
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)23 filingsthrough 2025
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)22 filingsthrough 2026
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)20 filingsthrough 2026
Matt SchnappaufCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.19 filingsthrough 2025
Robb WattersThe Madison GroupCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Frank Riggs18 filingsthrough 2015
Joseph BartonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Boehner)17 filingsthrough 2026
Charles CarithersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Homeland (Thompson); Brookings Legis Fellow, Senate Homeland (Carper)17 filingsthrough 2026
Gladys BarcenaThe Madison GroupCovered position: House THUD Appropriations; Office of Rep. Loretta Sanchez; Office of Rep. Linda Sanchez; Office of the House Clerk17 filingsthrough 2026
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)16 filingsthrough 2025
David PlanningCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Floor Dir, House Maj Whip; Staff Dir, House Smll Biz Cmte; Spec. Asst to Pres/Leg Affairs, Exec Office of Pres; Dep. Dir Coalitions& Mmbr Services, House Financial Cmte; Floor Asst, House Maj Whip; Spec. Asst, House Chf Dep. Whip; Staff Asst, Speaker11 filingsthrough 2026
Blair L WattersThe Madison GroupCovered position: LA, Rep. Matthew Martinez11 filingsthrough 2015
William P JarrellThe Madison GroupCovered position: Department of the Interior, Dep. Dir of Com.11 filingsthrough 2014
Michael AltesCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2026
John SandellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)9 filingsthrough 2021
Rodney P EmeryThe Madison Group9 filingsthrough 2016
Chyna MeltonThe Madison GroupCovered position: Special Advisor, CISA 2021-2022; Legislative Aide, Office of Rep. Cedric Richmond 2018-2021; Digital Press Secretary, Office of Rep. Val Demings 2018; Legislative Intern, Office of Rep. Cedric Richmond 20178 filingsthrough 2024
Kara Van StralenCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst, Senate (Menendez), Special Asst, House Energy & Commerce Comm; Policy Analyst, House Energy & Commerce Comm., Leg Asst, Senate (Booker); Policy Advisor, Senate (Booker); Sr Policy Advisor, Senate (Hassan); Chief of Staff, House (Levin)7 filingsthrough 2024
Patrick FloodCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff (Bacon); National Security Advisor (Bacon)4 filingsthrough 2026
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)4 filingsthrough 2025
Campbell KaufmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff House Member Office (McCrery & Cooksey)4 filingsthrough 2017
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)4 filingsthrough 2017
Tyler Brian NelsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office, Deputy Chief of Staff House Member Office, District Director (Olson)4 filingsthrough 2017
Michael BrownThe Madison Group4 filingsthrough 2012
Sarah VenutoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor (Manchin); Counsel, Comm Energy & Natural Resources Chief Counsel; Chief Counsel (Manchin); Staff Director, Comm on Energy & Natural Resources; Director, Office of External Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 27 of 33 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
