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
49 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Defense
DEF
45 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4310113th CongressReady to Work Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 6430113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4310114th CongressVet Electronic Trails Act of 20151 filing
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)54 filingsthrough 2025
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.47 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte35 filingsthrough 2020
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)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 62 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: hunt-development-group-llc.
$520K
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.
35 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
32 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
32 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
21 filings
$2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
11 filings
$520K on those filings
Veterans
VET
5 filings
$400K 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.
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20131 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 6430112th CongressPublic Buildings Reform Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
32 filingsthrough 2025
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)28 filingsthrough 2019
Joseph BartonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Boehner)25 filingsthrough 2019
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff; House Approps (Lewis, Young, Livingston)24 filingsthrough 2018
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 Cmte21 filingsthrough 2023
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)19 filingsthrough 2023
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)16 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)15 filingsthrough 2025
Paul Edward DininoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff Senate Mem Office (Reid)14 filingsthrough 2015
Gregory McdonaldCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Mem Office (Olver)14 filingsthrough 2015
John A. LeggieriCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.13 filingsthrough 2017
Bryan CunninghamPolaris-Hutton Group, LLCCovered position: LC Sen. Gregg; Intern, Sen. BennettPolicy Advsr & LA, Sen Ensign; LA Rep LoBiondo13 filingsthrough 2015
Michael HuttonPolaris-Hutton Group, LLC13 filingsthrough 2015
Dan GansPolaris-Hutton Group, LLCCovered position: COS, Rep Riley; LD, Rep Martini; Sr LA, Rep. Franks13 filingsthrough 2015
Christian LeeCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2025
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)12 filingsthrough 2019
Kevin O'HanlonPolaris-Hutton Group, LLCCovered position: Rep Sutton: Deputy Chief of Staff/Scheduler8 filingsthrough 2015
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)6 filingsthrough 2016
William ToddCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Member Senate Approps Cmte, Legislative Aide, Legislative Asst, Dep Legislative Director Senate Member (Cochran)5 filingsthrough 2023
