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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$870K on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$120K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Karyn RichmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Program Examiner, Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget; Professional Staff, House Appropriations Committee15 filingsthrough 2026
J Keith KennedyMr. J. Keith KennedyCovered position: Senate Appropriations staff director8 filingsthrough 2016
Charles CarithersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Homeland (Thompson); Brookings Legis Fellow, Senate Homeland (Carper)3 filingsthrough 2026
Stacy RichCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: palantir.
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.
2 filings
$110K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
$30K 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.
Michael R. CarterThe Bridge Advisory Group2 filingsthrough 2022
Andrew FlickCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Spec Asst to the Pres & Sr Adv for Cong Affairs and Strategic Outreach, Office of the VP; Exec Dir, New Democrat Coalition; Chief of Staff (Trone); Dep Chief of Staff (Moulton); Leg Director (Costa); Leg Asst (Skelton)1 filingthrough 2026
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)1 filingthrough 2023
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)1 filingthrough 2023
Steve MarcheseCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Policy Advisory (State); Senior Staff, House Approps Cmte1 filingthrough 2023
WILLIAM SMITH jrSextons CreekCovered position: Chief of Staff - Congressman Mike Pence1 filingthrough 2018
Lindsey CraigSextons CreekCovered position: Staff Assistant - Congressman Dave Weldon
Legislative Assistant - Congressman Mike Pence1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 10 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
