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: metabiota.
$60K
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.
MED
7 filings
$310K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$20K 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. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20221 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
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.
9 filings
through 2016
Erik FatemiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte9 filingsthrough 2016
John A. LeggieriCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2016
Carl KimeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC7 filingsthrough 2021
Neely Marcus SilbeyInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst, Sen. Patty Murray7 filingsthrough 2021
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)4 filingsthrough 2015
Joseph BischoffCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2016
Letitia WhiteInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Asst./Appropriations Associate, Rep. Jerry Lewis / House Republican Leadership Staff2 filingsthrough 2021
Katelyn CostelloInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission / Communications Director and EA, Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle2 filingsthrough 2021
Shavenor WintersInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Sen. Patty Murray2 filingsthrough 2020
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)2 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 10 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
