23 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2025 · latest filed Mar 14, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$850K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$850K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
15 filings
$620K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
5 filings
$220K on those filings
Transportation
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)13 filingsthrough 2022
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)13 filingsthrough 2022
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 Cmte13 filingsthrough 2022
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: the-washington-center.
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.
TRA
2 filings
$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.
John Sandell
Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)
13 filingsthrough 2022
Jorge A AguilarThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Communications Intern, Rep. Grayson; CHCI Public Policy Fellow, Office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid8 filingsthrough 2024
Estefania RodriguezThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Legis. Assistant, January 2017-October 2017, Rep. Gonzalez-Colon; Legis. Assistant, June 2015-January 2017, Staff Assistant, August 2012-May 2013, Intern, May 2012-July 2012, Rep. Pierluisi8 filingsthrough 2024
Jonathan AlexanderMonument Strategies, LLC3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
