23 filings from 2 registrants · 2022–2025 · latest filed Oct 11, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$910K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$910K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Chad SchulkenVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Clerk/Staff Director/Professional Staff, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations; Professional Staff, Commerce, Justice, State & Judiciary Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations13 filingsthrough 2024
Carlisle ClarkeVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Majority Clerk/Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Appropriations; Legislative Assistant, Senator Thad Cochran; Professional Staff/Assoc Prof Staff/Staff Asst/Leg Correspondent, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry13 filingsthrough 2024
Matt SchnappaufCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2025
James Richards
The filings
The 20 most recent of 23 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: shift5-inc.
$340K
fees reported
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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.
16 filings
$520K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
8 filings
$450K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
7 filings
$390K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
7 filings
$210K 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.
118th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024
3 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4921118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4663117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20241 filingthrough 2023
S. 4543117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
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.
Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)
10 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph BartonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Boehner)10 filingsthrough 2025
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)10 filingsthrough 2025
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)9 filingsthrough 2024
Charles CarithersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Homeland (Thompson); Brookings Legis Fellow, Senate Homeland (Carper)9 filingsthrough 2024
Jack BryanVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Staff Assistant/Intern, Senator Richard Shelby4 filingsthrough 2024
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 Cmte2 filingsthrough 2025
Jennifer NeuschelerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj. Admin Staff Asst, THUD Subcomm., Maj. Prof Staff, THUD Milcon-VASubcomm,Maj Clerk/Staff Dir. Milcon-VA Subcomm, Min Clerk/Staff Dir.Milcon-VA Subcomm,Maj. Clerk/Staff Dir, Min. Clerk/Staff Director, HouseApprops Comm2 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah VenutoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor (Manchin); Counsel, Comm Energy & Natural Resources Chief Counsel; Chief Counsel (Manchin); Staff Director, Comm on Energy & Natural Resources; Director, Office of External Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission2 filingsthrough 2023
Michael Joseph FalenckiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep Staff Dir, House Transportation & Infrastructure Comm; Staff Dir, Subcomm on Highways & Transit (T&I); Staff Dir, Subcomm on Railroads, Pipelines, & Hazardous Materials (T&I); Legislative Dir, Deputy CoS Staff, House Member Office (S. Graves)1 filingthrough 2024
GEORGE MATTHEW BERNIER iiiVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Congressional Affairs Office, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator Rick Santorum1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 13 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
