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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
21 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
21 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act7 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Patrick AmesBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Sr. Policy Advisor and Counselor, CFTC; Law Clerk CFTC Comm. Giancarlo; Law Clerk SEC Division of Enforcement13 filingsthrough 2026
Steven PfrangBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS, Rep. LaHood; Dep COS, LD, Rep. Reed; LA, LC, SA, Intern, Rep. Fossella13 filingsthrough 2026
Joel D. BaileyBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS Rep. Panetta; LD Rep. Ashford; LD Rep. Matheson; Sr. LA Rep. Matsui; LA, Sr. LA Rep. Baron Hill; Intern Rep. Rahall11 filingsthrough 2026
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: valero-services-inc.
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.
21 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$130K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
3 filings
$130K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
3 filings
$130K 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.
Covered position: Staff Asst House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)
11 filingsthrough 2023
Tyler Brian NelsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office, Deputy Chief of Staff House Member Office, District Director (Olson)11 filingsthrough 2023
Christopher SarleyCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Policy Coordinator, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Policy Director, Sr Legis Asst, House Member Office (Shimkus); Sr Legis Asst, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, House Member Office (Hastert)11 filingsthrough 2023
John SandellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)11 filingsthrough 2023
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)11 filingsthrough 2023
Joseph V VasapoliFarragut Partners LLPCovered position: Min. Counsel, Energy&Comm, Special Asst. DOE6 filingsthrough 2017
Jeff MackinnonFarragut Partners LLPCovered position: LD & LA Rep. Joe Barton (RTexas)5 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffery C. MortierFarragut Partners LLPCovered position: Prof Staff on E&C Cmte and LA Rep Whitfield, Intern for Devin Nunes5 filingsthrough 2017
