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.
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.59 filingsthrough 2026
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)59 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy WolfmeyerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.59 filingsthrough 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)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 77 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-cherokee-nation.
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.
DEF
2 filings
$120K 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.
117th Congress
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
1 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 3091117th CongressCherokee Nation and Chickasaw Nation Criminal Jurisdiction Compacting Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act1 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 8162116th Congress21st Century Community Learning Centers Coronavirus Relief Act of 20201 filingthrough 2020
H.R. 8255116th CongressCatawba Indian Nation Lands Act1 filingthrough 2020
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20201 filingthrough 2020
S. 3044116th CongressWestern Tribal Water Infrastructure Act of 20201 filingthrough 2020
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.
32 filings
through 2026
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)21 filingsthrough 2018
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Ast House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)16 filingsthrough 2016
Gregory McdonaldCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Mem Office (Olver)15 filingsthrough 2015
LOUIE PERRY iiiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Huckaby)12 filingsthrough 2015
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff House Approps Committee9 filingsthrough 2014
Michael HigdonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Rogers);LA House Member Office (Bartlett); LC & CD House Member Office (Packard)7 filingsthrough 2016
Denise BodeCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2016
David MullonVenable LLPCovered position: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Staff Director and Chief Counsel, General Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, Senior Counsel5 filingsthrough 2021
John A. LeggieriCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2018
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 2018
Covered positions · 10 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
