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.
Jessica Anne MandelMiller Strategies, LLC27 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth (Liz) BanickiID.ME, LLCCovered position: Sr. Director, Federal Government Affairs17 filingsthrough 2026
Ashley GunnMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Special Asst to the President, Senior Director, White House Office of Cabinet Affairs.15 filingsthrough 2025
Stephen RuppelMiller Strategies, LLC14 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 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: id-me-llc.
$580K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
SCI
23 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Veterans
VET
13 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Unemployment
UNM
13 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
5 filings
$940K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$980K 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.
118th Congress
Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act
4 filingsthrough 2023
S. 884118th CongressImproving Digital Identity Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4258117th CongressImproving Digital Identity Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8254117th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8152117th CongressAmerican Data Privacy and Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3600117th CongressStrengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4528117th CongressImproving Digital Identity Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
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 SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
11 filingsthrough 2026
Steve MarcheseCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Policy Advisory (State); Senior Staff, House Approps Cmte11 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan VanderplasID.ME, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Labor Veterans' Employment and Training Service (2018-2021); Legislative Counsel, United States Senator Mark Kirk (2015-2017); Legislative Counsel, United States Representative Mike Coffman (2014)9 filingsthrough 2023
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)5 filingsthrough 2024
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, Speaker4 filingsthrough 2026
Dianne NellorCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte; Prof. Staff Joint Econ. Cmte4 filingsthrough 2026
Charles CarithersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Homeland (Thompson); Brookings Legis Fellow, Senate Homeland (Carper)4 filingsthrough 2024
Ashley PalmerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep Asst Sec, Cong. Affairs, HHS; Prof Staff Mem, Senate Approp Cmte; Sr Policy Advisor, Coalitions and Mem Services Svcs Aide, House Budget Cmte; Sr Leg Assistant, Leg Asst, House Mem Office (Boehner); Leg Asst, Staff Asst, House Mem Office (Putnam)1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 9 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
