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.
Kathryn RuffaloRuffalo and Associates, LLC23 filingsthrough 2015
James KolbSummit Strategies Government Affairs LLCCovered position: Staff Director for the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee from 2007 - 2014. Director of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation - 1998-2001.22 filingsthrough 2026
Mark DedrickSummit Strategies Government Affairs LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, LD Rep. Darlene Hooley 1997; 2002-2006; Staff Assistant, LA Rep. Tony Hall 1998-2001; LA Rep. Rush Holt 2001-2002.17 filingsthrough 2026
Hal D HiemstraSummit Strategies Government Affairs LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 52 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: national-association-of-development-organizations.
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.
BUD
10 filings
$170K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
5 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.
119th Congress
BUILD America 250 Act
1 filingthrough 2026
S. 3891118th CongressEconomic Development Reauthorization Act of 20241 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
11 filings
through 2023
Michael HigdonA1.9 Strategies LLCCovered position: Office of Rep. H. Rogers: Chief of Staff/Approps Assoc (2009-2011); Legislative Dir. (2005-2009); Legislative Assist (2003-2005); Office of Rep R. Bartlett: Legislative Assist (2003-2005); Office of Rep. R. Packard: Leg Correspondent (1999-2001)6 filingsthrough 2022
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)6 filingsthrough 2015
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep UndSec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approprs Cmte6 filingsthrough 2015
Alice Joan GomezCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2015
Erik FatemiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte6 filingsthrough 2015
Michael HigdonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Mem Office (Rogers);LA House Mem Office (Bartlett; LC & CD House Mem Office (Packard)6 filingsthrough 2015
Timothy WolfmeyerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2015
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Ast House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)1 filingthrough 2014
Paul Edward DininoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff Senate Mem Office (Reid)1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 9 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
