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.
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$230K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4117th CongressJohn R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2021
S. 1117th CongressFor the People Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2021
Luke AlbeeBlue Mountain StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Leahy; Chief of Staff, Mark Warner; Staff, Governor Dukakis4 filingsthrough 2021
Brian BallardBallard Partners4 filingsthrough 2020
Rebecca BennBallard PartnersCovered position: LA to Sen. Cochran, Senate Committee on Appropriations.4 filingsthrough 2020
Matthew HinchCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Correspondent, Director in House Member Office (Latham)
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: secure-democracy.
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.
117th Congress
For the People Act of 2021
1 filingthrough 2021
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.
3 filings
through 2022
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 Cmte3 filingsthrough 2022
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind); Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)3 filingsthrough 2022
Connie LarossaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LD, Dept. of Defense Office of Counternarcotics & Global Threats; LD, Dept. of Homeland Security Intelligence & Analysis Office and Domestic Nuclear Detection Office; Deputy Asst Sec. for House Affairs at the Dept. of Homeland Security3 filingsthrough 2022
William ToddCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Member, Senate Approps Cmte; Legislative Aide, Legislative Asst., Dep Legislative Director Senate Member (Cochran)3 filingsthrough 2022
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2022
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)2 filingsthrough 2022
Erik FatemiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte (Byrd, Inouye, Mikulski)2 filingsthrough 2022
Stacy RichCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Leadership Staff Director, Senior Leadership Advisor and Floor Director, Leadership Advisor (Senate-Murray); Senate Cloakroom Asst. Dem Cloakroom (Reid, Daschle); Staff/Press Asst. (Daschle)2 filingsthrough 2022
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Rep. Lofgren); Dir of Congressional Relations (FTC); Dep Dir for Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Staff Asst (Sen. Metzenbaum)1 filingthrough 2021
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Mem Svcs & Coalitions Dir (House Approp C); Pol Adv/Dep CoS (House Maj Ldr DeLay); LD (Rep. Rogers); Sr LA (Rep. Regula); Sr LA (Rep. Franks); LA (Rep. Rogers); Special Proj Asst (House Trans/Infra C); Staff Asst (Rep. Shuster)1 filingthrough 2021
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Sr Csl, Csl (Sen. McCaskill); Assoc Admin, Dep Assoc Admin, Sr Adv (Office of Cong & Intergvt Relations, EPA)1 filingthrough 2021
Paul ThornellMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dep Dir of Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Assoc Dir-Senate Dem Steering C (Sen. Daschle)1 filingthrough 2021
James MooersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 14 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
