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.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
28 filings
$700K on those filings
Retirement
RET
21 filings
$280K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Lars GolumbicGroom Law Group, Chartered23 filingsthrough 2018
Edward ScalletGroom Law Group, Chartered14 filingsthrough 2016
John SandellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)9 filingsthrough 2025
Dao NguyenCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Future Forum Caucus (Murphy), Senior Policy Advisor (Murphy), Senior Policy Advisor, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Aid, Staff Assistant (Schiff)8 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 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-esop-association.
$280K
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.
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
5 filings
$300K 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.
through 2024
John CrumblissCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth Teed GriffinCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, House Member Office (Westerman)7 filingsthrough 2025
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)5 filingsthrough 2025
Erik FatemiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte (Byrd, Inouye, Mikulski)2 filingsthrough 2023
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)2 filingsthrough 2023
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 2023
Robin JulianoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Dir House Approps Cmte; Clerk House Labor-HHS Subcmte; Prof Staff House Labor-HHS Subcmte; Sr Policy Advr, Natl Economic Council, Exec Office of Pres; Prof Staff Senate Labor-HHS Subcmte; Educ Policy Advr HELP Cmte; Sr.LA(Sanders);LA(Mikulski)2 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 9 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
