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.
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 Security17 filingsthrough 2024
Brad GentileHill East Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. John Katko; Deputy Chief of Staff,Legislative Director, Rep. Chris Gibson; Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Rep. John Boehner13 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary HowellHill East Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. John Katko; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Ron DeSantis; Communications Director, Rep. Kay Granger; Press Secretary, Rep. Ben Quayle13 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 35 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: merlin-international-inc.
$360K
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.
SCI
12 filings
$360K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$100K 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
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 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.
Erin O'Connor ElliottHill East Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Communications Director & Counsel, Rep. John Katko13 filingsthrough 2026
John Michael KatkoHill East Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress13 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph BartonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Boehner)10 filingsthrough 2022
Charles CarithersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Homeland (Thompson); Brookings Legis Fellow, Senate Homeland (Carper)8 filingsthrough 2022
Connie LarossaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LD, Dept. of Defense 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 Security5 filingsthrough 2021
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)2 filingsthrough 2020
Tyler GutchessHill East Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant: Rep. Marc Molinaro; Constituent Services Representative, Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide, Legislative Assistant: Rep. John Katko1 filingthrough 2024
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)1 filingthrough 2022
James MooersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 11 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
