Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 441 clients
7,083 filings
$272.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 228 clients
2,625 filings
$111.4M on those filings
Health Issues
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this firm's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Clay FullerR-Georgia-AL
Bills: H.R. 7230
4 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this firm's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Michael SmithCovered position: District Director, Senior Advisor in House Member Office (Hoyer), Majority and Minority House Whip Office (Hoyer)2,697 filings209 clients · through 2026
James RichardsCovered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)2,598 filings193 clients · through 2026
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCovered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte2,074 filings113 clients · through 2026
Foreign interests disclosed
The 15 most frequently disclosed of 34 foreign entities named on this registrant's filings.
Macquarie Asset Management Europe S.A R.L.
Luxembourg
4 filings
through 2026
Macquarie Green Energy and Climate Opportunities Fund Scsp (Luxembourg)
Luxembourg
4 filings
through 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 12,268 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: cornerstone-government-affairs-inc.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $444M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HCR · 142 clients
2,021 filings
$74.9M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 93 clients
1,685 filings
$62.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 78 clients
959 filings
$42.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 80 clients
885 filings
$40M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 69 clients
833 filings
$30.8M on those filings
Education
EDU · 84 clients
815 filings
$30.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 95 clients
770 filings
$29.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 71 clients
754 filings
$31.4M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 41 clients
578 filings
$22.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 62 clients
524 filings
$23.9M 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 money 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.
Susan SweatCovered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)1,504 filings153 clients · through 2026
Mark MioduskiCovered position: Prof Staff;House Approps Cmte (Obey)1,451 filings92 clients · through 2026
LOUIE PERRY iiiCovered position: LA House Member Office (Huckaby)1,428 filings82 clients · through 2026
Anthony LazarskiCovered position: Senior Legislative Advisor, Senate Member Office (Inhofe); Professional Staff Member, Senate Armed Services Committee; Military Legislative Assistant, Senate Member Office (Inhofe)1,425 filings133 clients · through 2026
William SmithCovered 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 Cmte1,211 filings130 clients · through 2026
John CrumblissCovered position: Leadership Staff Director, Senior Leadership Advisor and Floor Director, Leadership Advisor (Senate -Murray); Senate Cloakroom Asst, Dem Cloakroom (Reid, Daschle); Staff/Press Asst (Daschle)1,086 filings96 clients · through 2026
John KeastCovered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)1,008 filings93 clients · through 2019
Eric ToberCovered position: Staff Asst House Mem (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)945 filings107 clients · through 2026
Laura BozellCovered position: LA House Member Office (McCrery), Prof Staff Ways & Means Cmte (Camp)938 filings71 clients · through 2026
Erik FatemiCovered position: Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte (Byrd, Inouye, Mikulski)938 filings74 clients · through 2026
Amy SoudersCovered position: N/A914 filings48 clients · through 2026
Michael GoodmanCovered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)913 filings99 clients · through 2026
Todd WebsterCovered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)890 filings104 clients · through 2026
Laverne Patrick HubertCovered position: Min Chief Counsel, Senate Ag Cmte, Chief Counsel, LD & COS House Ag Cmte842 filings44 clients · through 2026
Tony EssalihCovered position: COS, LD, LA House Member Office (Culberson), LA House Member Office (Archer), SA House Member Office (Hastings), Intern House Member Office (Bliley)836 filings79 clients · through 2026
Joseph BartonCovered position: LA House Member Office (Boehner)804 filings78 clients · through 2026
Campbell KaufmanCovered position: Staff House Member Office (McCrery & Cooksey)803 filings57 clients · through 2023
John SandellCovered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)730 filings67 clients · through 2026
Heather MolinoCovered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)715 filings73 clients · through 2026
Michelle MrdezaCovered position: Prof Staff; House Approps (Lewis, Young, Livingston)652 filings55 clients · through 2021
Joseph Bischoff632 filings43 clients · through 2026
Timothy Wolfmeyer592 filings59 clients · through 2026
Christopher HodgsonCovered position: Legislative Assistant (Scalise), Floor Assistant & Deputy Floor Director for House Majority Whip (Scalise), Deputy Director & Director of Legislative Affairs (Pence)561 filings97 clients · through 2026
Christopher SarleyCovered 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)541 filings83 clients · through 2025
John A. Leggieri517 filings61 clients · through 2024
Daniel Edison Fleming483 filings50 clients · through 2014
Covered positions · 120 of 176 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Asset (Europe) Limited
United Kingdom
4 filings
through 2026
Mgeco Luxembourg Gp S.A R.L.
Luxembourg
4 filings
through 2026
Tencate Protective Fabrics Holding B.V.
Netherlands
2 filings
through 2026
10543985 Canada Inc.
Canada
2 filings
through 2022
Investissement-Quebec
Canada
2 filings
through 2022
Ogci Climate Investment LLP
United Kingdom
2 filings
through 2022
Czech Republic
Czechia
2 filings
through 2021
Leonardo Helicopter Division S.P.A.
Italy
2 filings
through 2017
Selex Es International Ltd
United Kingdom
2 filings
through 2016
Capvest Partners LLP
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2026
European Lithium Limited
Australia
1 filing
through 2025
James Mcclements
Australia
1 filing
through 2025
Biontech Se
Germany
1 filing
through 2024
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
