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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$550K on those filings
Defense
DEF
8 filings
$400K on those filings
Education
EDU
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 2026
Elizabeth Louise MesserCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide, House Member Office (Palazzo); Legislative Assistant, House Member Office (Rutherford)10 filingsthrough 2025
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)6 filingsthrough 2025
Anthony Lazarski
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: university-of-maine-system.
8 filings
$400K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
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.
Cornerstone 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)
4 filingsthrough 2026
Christian LeeCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: PSM-Detailee, Senate Appropriations Committee; House Liaison Assistant, Coast Guard House Liaison Office; Coast Guard Fellow, Select Committee on Homeland Security4 filingsthrough 2025
Dianne NellorCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte; Prof. Staff Joint Econ. Cmte2 filingsthrough 2026
Meredith MclaughlinCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Assistant to the Chief of Staff (Collins)2 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte2 filingsthrough 2024
Michael CuzziCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.1 filingthrough 2025
Marty FullerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
