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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
17 filings
$330K on those filings
Defense
DEF
17 filings
$330K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5013113th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.1 filingthrough 2015
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)18 filingsthrough 2015
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)18 filingsthrough 2015
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst House Member (Bruce); Senate Project Dir (Johnston)18 filingsthrough 2015
Daniel Edison FlemingCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: par-systems-inc.
17 filings
$330K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
5 filings
$80K 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.
114th Congress
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.
1 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 83113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20151 filingthrough 2014
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.
13 filingsthrough 2013
Katherine EltzrothCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2013
Mark RokalaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2012
Mark William MurrayCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff House Cmte Office5 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
