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.
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
70 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
50 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 38 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 676112th CongressA bill to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.9 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 375116th CongressTo amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2020
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.61 filingsthrough 2025
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst House Member (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)61 filingsthrough 2025
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)59 filingsthrough 2025
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 102 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: tunica-biloxi-tribe-of-louisiana.
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.
FIN
38 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
29 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Education
EDU
16 filings
$960K on those filings
Defense
DEF
10 filings
$810K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
9 filings
$400K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$580K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$50K 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.
116th Congress
Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 226116th CongressTribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 986115th CongressTribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 63115th CongressTribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 732114th CongressA bill to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 279113th CongressTo amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 666113th CongressTo amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 407114th CongressTo amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3138115th CongressTribal Tax and Investment Reform Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 511114th CongressTribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1897114th CongressSafer Officers and Safer Citizens Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1234112th CongressTo amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.5 filingsthrough 2012
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.
34 filingsthrough 2018
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Senate Ag Cmte,Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte30 filingsthrough 2017
John CrumblissCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte30 filingsthrough 2017
Paul Edward DininoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff Senate Mem Office (Reid)22 filingsthrough 2015
Charles CarithersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Homeland (Thompson); Brookings Legis Fellow, Senate Homeland (Carper)15 filingsthrough 2025
Ryan A SmithBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel - Senator Jon Kyl10 filingsthrough 2022
Sarah MurrayBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP10 filingsthrough 2022
Jody Allen CummingsSteptoe LLP6 filingsthrough 2013
ROGER STONE jrDrake Ventures, LLC5 filingsthrough 2026
Kate GonzalesBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Sinema; Legislative Aide, Rep. Sinema; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Sinema; Scheduler and Director of Operations, Rep. Sinema4 filingsthrough 2022
Eric ToberJohnston & Associates, LLC4 filingsthrough 2008
JOHN F KELLY jrCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2013
David PlanningCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Floor Dir, House Maj Whip; Staff Dir, House Smll Biz Cmte; Spec. Asst to Pres/Leg Affairs, Exec Office of Pres; Dep. Dir Coalitions&Mmbr Services, House Financial Cmte; Floor Asst, House Maj Whip; Spec. Asst, House Chf Dep. Whip; Staff Asst, Speaker2 filingsthrough 2025
BYRON CRAIG WILLIAMS jrJenner & Block LLP2 filingsthrough 2023
John SobelJenner & Block LLPCovered position: Former Chief of Staff to Representative Paul Cook (R-CA)1 filingthrough 2022
ROBERT HARMALA esqJenner & Block LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Jason Lee BucknerBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Acting Director - Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs
(Department of the Interior); Principal Dep. Director - Office of
Congressional and Legislative Affairs (Department of the Interior); Chief
of Staff - Rep. Dan Boren1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 12 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
