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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
23 filings
$805K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
6 filings
$250K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5394114th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2844114th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.26 filingsthrough 2017
Gregory McdonaldCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Mem Office (Olver)20 filingsthrough 2014
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA, Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)19 filingsthrough 2017
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Approps Cmte
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: selex-es-inc.
5 filings
$140K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$140K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$140K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 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.
17 filings
through 2014
Daniel Edison FlemingCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2013
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)6 filingsthrough 2017
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)6 filingsthrough 2017
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)6 filingsthrough 2017
Lisa MeyerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2012
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)1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
