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.
Agriculture
AGR
68 filings
$600K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
68 filings
$600K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4112th CongressComprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2011
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
Laverne Patrick HubertCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Min Chief Counsel, Senate Ag Cmte, Chief Counsel, LD & COS House Ag Cmte67 filingsthrough 2026
Alice Joan GomezCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.50 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Senate Ag Cmte, Dep UndSec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte46 filingsthrough 2019
LOUIE PERRY iiiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Huckaby)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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: us-rice-producers-association.
42 filings
$480K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
18 filings
$180K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
$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.
110th Congress
Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3240113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 6124110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
46 filingsthrough 2019
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)46 filingsthrough 2019
Fred James ClarkCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel Senate Ag Cmte (Boozman); Sr Counsel & Chief Counsel Senate Ag Cmte (Roberts)29 filingsthrough 2025
Mark RokalaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.18 filingsthrough 2012
Joseph BischoffCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2019
Macey HammerstromCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2026
Prescott MartinCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep General Counsel, U.S. Dept of Ag; Senior Counsel, U.S. Dept of Ag; Chief Counsel, House Ag Cmte Majority; Chief Counsel, House Ag Cmte minority [Scott] Senior Counsel, House Ag Cmte [Peterson]; Counsel, House Ag Cmte [Peterson]2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
