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.
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-notre-dame.
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.
59 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
49 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
49 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
42 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
20 filings
$860K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
19 filings
$890K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
15 filings
$700K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
10 filings
$260K on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
6 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
6 filings
$870K 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.
115th Congress
PROSPER Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4186113th CongressFIRST Act of 20148 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1310114th CongressCampus Accountability and Safety Act6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 590114th CongressCampus Accountability and Safety Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20185 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20185 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20175 filingsthrough 2016
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.
through 2026
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)27 filingsthrough 2026
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 Cmte26 filingsthrough 2026
Steve MarcheseCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2026
John SandellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)14 filingsthrough 2026
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates14 filingsthrough 2012
Daniel R MurphyBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff to HUD Secretary; Personal Aide Vice President Quayle; Field Rep. Sen. Quayle; Intern Rep. Hiler; Intern, Sen. Quayle11 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph Gary LaiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Sp. Asst. to POTUS for Leg Affairs; LD Sen. Wicker; Mil. Leg. Asst. Sen Wicker; Policy Advisor Sen. Voinovich; Policy Advisor Sen. Hagel; Intern U.S. Trade and Development Agency11 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan MillerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2026
Steven PfrangBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS, Rep. LaHood; Dep COS, LD, Rep. Reed; LA, LC, SA, Intern, Rep. Fossella11 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer Larkin LukawskiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg. Dir. Rep. Dornan, Ex. Dir., U.S. House Con. Act. Team (Rep. Study Comm.); Intern, Staff Asst. Rep. Courter10 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)9 filingsthrough 2021
Wendy Sammons-JacksonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Director, Military Infectious Diseases Research Program, US Army Medical Research and Development Command8 filingsthrough 2026
Fred TurnerBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS, Sen. Menendez; COS, US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; COS, Rep. Hastings, Associate Staff of House Rules Committee8 filingsthrough 2025
John CrumblissCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2022
Crystal MartinezUniversity of Notre DameCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Dianne Feinstein; Confidential Asst/SpecialAsst, US Department of Education; Legislative Correspondent, Senator TomUdall; Legislative Correspondent,Senator Barack Obama; & Legislative Correspondent; Rep Ruben Hinojosa7 filingsthrough 2026
Alessandra S. NepolaUniversity of Notre DameCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Mitch McConnell; Senior LegislativeAssistant, Representative James Comer; Legislative Aide/LegislativeCorrespondent/Research Analyst, Senator Mitch McConnell; Intern, Executive Office of the President (George W. Bush)7 filingsthrough 2026
Marc LampkinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP4 filingsthrough 2026
Brian Thomas McguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Asst Sec. for Legis. Affairs, Treasury; Counselor, Treasury; COS, Sen McConnell; Acting Staff Dir, R Comm Center, Sen McConnell; Dep Com Dir, Sen McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, Sen McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, HUD4 filingsthrough 2026
Harold HancockBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, House Ways and Means Committee4 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer BrownBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Bnk. Coun. Ldr. Schumer; Tax Coun. Sen. Menendez; Econ. Coun. House Sm. Biz. Cmt.; ERISA Specialist U.S. DOL4 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher HodgsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant (Scalise), Floor Assistant & Deputy Floor Director for House Majority Whip (Scalise), Deputy Director & Director of Legislative Affairs (Pence)4 filingsthrough 2024
William ToddCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Member Senate Approps Cmte, Legislative Aide, Legislative Asst, Dep Legislative Director Senate Member (Cochran)4 filingsthrough 2020
John ReisingBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Scheduler, Operations Director, Member Services Director, Deputy Chief of Staff- Majority Leader Steve Scalise; Operations Director, Rep. Bill Flores; Scheduler, Rep. Austin Scott; Intern, Senator Trent Lott.3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 40 of 52 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
