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.
Richard GoodsteinMr. Richard Goodstein26 filingsthrough 2020
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)16 filingsthrough 2023
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)16 filingsthrough 2023
Jason SchendleAlpine Group Partners, LLC. Legislative Counsel, Sen. Mary Landrieu
The filings
The 20 most recent of 71 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: the-aluminum-association.
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.
40 filings
$960K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
26 filings
$980K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
23 filings
$690K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
22 filings
$830K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
12 filings
$530K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$200K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$230K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$10K 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
Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 2024
6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1194118th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2025
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.
Covered position:
13 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Sean HaywoodAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: LA, Senator Jim Bunning; LA, Rep. Dave Camp13 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer ForrestAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Executive Asst. Rep. Greg Walden13 filingsthrough 2026
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 Cmte11 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)11 filingsthrough 2022
Anne GaymanLot Sixteen LLCCovered position: Legislative Director for Senator Lisa Murkowski; Senior Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources9 filingsthrough 2025
Mary Katherine CarterLot Sixteen LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, Senate Finance Committee9 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph Brady HowellBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Treas., Leg. Aff., Sr Adv.; H. For. Aff. Comm., Rep Royce, Asst. Staff Dir., Pol. An., Spec. Asst.; H. Admin. Comm., Rep Miller, Int.; H. For. Aff. Comm., Eur./Eurasia Sub., Rep Burton, Prof. Staff, Rep./Policy Adv., Assoc., Rep.; Rep Burton, Int.7 filingsthrough 2026
Courtney JohnsonAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Research Assistant, House Energy & Commerce Committee7 filingsthrough 2024
Colin BrainardAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Steve Watkins; Executive Director, Joint Economic Cmte.; Dep. Chief of Staff, Rep. Erik Paulsen; Dep. Chief of Staff, Rep. Lynn Jenkins; LC, Sen. Richard Burr1 filingthrough 2026
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)1 filingthrough 2020
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)1 filingthrough 2019
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)1 filingthrough 2019
Alice Joan GomezCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.1 filingthrough 2019
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)1 filingthrough 2019
John SandellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 23 of 30 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
