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.
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)62 filingsthrough 2026
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)59 filingsthrough 2026
Nathan CookRice UniversityCovered position: District Director, Rep. Pete Olson; Deputy Regional Director, Sen. John Cornyn
The filings
The 20 most recent of 140 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: rice-university.
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.
97 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
90 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
86 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
40 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
25 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
24 filings
$903K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
23 filings
$863K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
19 filings
$700K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
18 filings
$900K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
12 filings
$490K 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. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5342119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9029118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
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.
38 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy WolfmeyerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.31 filingsthrough 2018
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)26 filingsthrough 2023
Campbell KaufmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff House Member Office (McCrery & Cooksey)25 filingsthrough 2017
Cory KennedyRice University25 filingsthrough 2016
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst House Member (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)16 filingsthrough 2017
Erik FatemiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte (Byrd, Inouye, Mikulski)16 filingsthrough 2017
John A. LeggieriCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.15 filingsthrough 2020
Denise BodeCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2016
Kristina PisanelliCrowell & Moring LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senator Patrick Leahy11 filingsthrough 2011
Ray MartinezRice UniversityCovered position: White House Liaison-U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services11 filingsthrough 2010
Laverne Patrick HubertCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, LD, COS House Ag Committee10 filingsthrough 2013
Daniel Edison FlemingCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2013
Anthony LazarskiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Legislative Advisor, Senate Member Office (Inhofe); Professional Staff Member, Senate Armed Services Committee; Military Legislative Assistant, Senate Member Office (Inhofe)6 filingsthrough 2024
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2017
Peter RobertsonCrowell & Moring LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff and Acting Deputy Administrator, EPA6 filingsthrough 2010
Tyler Brian NelsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office, Deputy Chief of Staff House Member Office, District Director (Olson)5 filingsthrough 2018
Steve MarcheseCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Policy Advisory (State); Senior Staff, House Approps Cmte4 filingsthrough 2025
Christopher SarleyCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Policy Coordinator, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Policy Director, Sr Legis Asst, House Member Office (Shimkus); Sr Legis Asst, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, House Member Office (Hastert)3 filingsthrough 2017
Katherine EltzrothCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2013
Peter RobertsonPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP3 filingsthrough 2008
Rick ZampelliCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2025
Albert L MassoniFba, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2008
John KirklandFba, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2008
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
William SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Deputy Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assist, House Member Office (Rogers); Staff Assistant, Senate Approps Cmte1 filingthrough 2023
Charles CarithersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Homeland (Thompson); Brookings Legis Fellow, Senate Homeland (Carper)1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 24 of 38 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
