56 filings from 2 registrants · 2018–2025 · latest filed Mar 7, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$4.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$4.9M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
John CrumblissCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.32 filingsthrough 2025
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)32 filingsthrough 2025
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)32 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew KaudersCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Sr. Adv'r/Exec. Dir., House Democratic Caucus // Sr. Adv'r/Comm. Dir., Rep. Robert Menendez // Spksperson/Asst. to D. Sec'y, Dept. of Agriculture // Dpty. Comm. Dir., WH Climate Chg Task Force // Special Assistant, Environ. Protection Agency
The filings
The 20 most recent of 56 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: mr-jay-alix.
$2.4M
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.
10 filings
$990K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$160K 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.
PRRADA
7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3810118th CongressTime to Choose Act of 20246 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2034119th CongressA bill to authorize the International Boundary and Water Commission to accept funds for activities relating to wastewater treatment and flood control works, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2025
S. 3810119th CongressSWAT Act of 20261 filingthrough 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.
David OxnerCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Jerry Moran // Prof. Staff, House Financial Services Cmte. // Leg. Assistant/Policy Coordinator, Rep. Paul Gillmor21 filingsthrough 2025
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.21 filingsthrough 2022
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)13 filingsthrough 2025
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)12 filingsthrough 2020
Matthew HinchCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Correspondent, Director in House Member Office (Latham)11 filingsthrough 2020
Campbell KaufmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff House Member Office (McCrery & Cooksey)10 filingsthrough 2020
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)10 filingsthrough 2020
LOUIE PERRY iiiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Huckaby)6 filingsthrough 2019
