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.
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Ast House Member (Bruce); Senate Project Dir (Johnston)56 filingsthrough 2026
Tony EssalihCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS, LD, LA House Member Office (Culberson); LA House Member Office (Archer); SA House Member Office (Hastings): Intern House Member Office (Bliley)56 filingsthrough 2026
Tyler Brian NelsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office, Deputy Chief of Staff House Member Office, District Director (Olson).41 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Smith
The filings
The 20 most recent of 71 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: kirby-corporation.
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.
TRA
35 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
34 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
11 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.
114th Congress
Vessel Incidental Discharge Act
7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 737114th CongressEnsuring Access to Primary Care for Women & Children Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3266115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20186 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1609115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 7659118th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4923113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20154 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 8812118th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1611114th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
S. 3270117th CongressMaritime Administration Reauthorization Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4357117th CongressMaritime Administration Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4802117th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5055115th CongressAcequia Conservation Program Eligibility Act2 filingsthrough 2017
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.
29 filingsthrough 2020
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)26 filingsthrough 2018
Christian LeeCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: PSM-Detailee, Senate Appropriations Committee; House Liaison Assistant, Coast Guard House Liaison Office; Coast Guard Fellow, Select Committee on Homeland Security22 filingsthrough 2026
Paul Edward DininoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Reid)14 filingsthrough 2015
Daniel Edison FlemingCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2014
Michael HigdonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Rogers);LA House Member Office (Bartlett) LC & CD House Member Office (Packard)7 filingsthrough 2016
Dabney HeggCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Clerk, Sen Approps Cmte; Prof Staff, Sen Approps Cmte; Sr Prof Staff,SenateCmte on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Prof Staff, SenateCmte onCommerce, Science, and Transportation; Leg Asst(Hollings);StaffAsst(Hollings); Intern(Hollings)6 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Joseph FalenckiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep Staff Dir, House Transportation & Infrastructure Comm; Staff Dir, Subcomm on Highways & Transit (T&I); Staff Dir, Subcomm on Railroads, Pipelines, & Hazardous Materials (T&I); Legislative Dir, Deputy CoS Staff, House Member Office (S. Graves)3 filingsthrough 2025
Barry M HartmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Dep Asst to Atty Genl; Dep Asst Atty Genl, DOJ Envt DivActing Asst Atty Genl2 filingsthrough 2012
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen Subc Ed, Arts & Humanities1 filingthrough 2012
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith1 filingthrough 2012
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel Senate Finance Committee1 filingthrough 2012
