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: wine-and-spirits-wholesalers-of-america.
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.
BUD
31 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Postal
POS
22 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$90K 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.
114th Congress
FAST Act
3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2903114th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5714114th CongressPostal Service Reform Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1562114th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5034111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1611112th CongressClean Energy Business Zone Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2751111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.Res. 700111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S.Res. 318111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
John Sandell
Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)
28 filingsthrough 2026
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)28 filingsthrough 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
Frank VlossakWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: LA, Rep Merrill Cook26 filingsthrough 2016
Benjamin CooperWilliams and Jensen, PLLC26 filingsthrough 2016
George D BakerWilliams and Jensen, PLLC26 filingsthrough 2016
Melinda M MaxfieldWilliams and Jensen, PLLC26 filingsthrough 2016
Matthew B HoekstraWilliams and Jensen, PLLC26 filingsthrough 2016
Tracy D TaylorWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Sch. C Sta Agency for International Development25 filingsthrough 2016
George OlsenWilliams and Jensen, PLLC25 filingsthrough 2016
Anthony J RodaWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Leadership Staff, House Whip25 filingsthrough 2016
Karina LynchWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Senate Committees on Aging and Gov Affairs25 filingsthrough 2016
Robert J MartinezWilliams and Jensen, PLLC23 filingsthrough 2015
Joel OswaldWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Prof Staff, Senate Banking; LA, Senator Enzi21 filingsthrough 2016
Erin Book MullenWilliams and Jensen, PLLC21 filingsthrough 2016
David A StarrWilliams and Jensen, PLLC20 filingsthrough 2016
Jenny DijamesWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: LA and LD, Rep. Bud Cramer19 filingsthrough 2014
Bertram CarpWilliams and Jensen, PLLC18 filingsthrough 2013
Elizabeth Louise MesserCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide, House Member Office (Palazzo); Legislative Assistant, House Member Office (Rutherford)16 filingsthrough 2025
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)14 filingsthrough 2026
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)14 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth Teed GriffinCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, House Member Office (Westerman)13 filingsthrough 2026
Michael BeerWilliams and Jensen, PLLC13 filingsthrough 2013
Rebecca AndersonWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: White House Office of Legislative Affairs13 filingsthrough 2013
Tess IllosWilliams and Jensen, PLLC11 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 29 of 45 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
