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CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC.

Lobbying for RICE UNIVERSITY · Government Relations

Filing Q2 report

Reporting period

2nd Quarter 2025

Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Jul 17, 2025

Income

$30,000.00

What the client paid this registrant for the period.

Client based in

Texas

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 3

TONY ESSALIH

Previously held: COS, LD, LA House Member Office (Culberson); LA House Member Office (Archer); SA House Member Office (Hastings); Intern House Member Office (Bliley)
SUSAN SWEAT

Previously held: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)
STEVE MARCHESE

Previously held: Senior Policy Advisory (State); Senior Staff, House Approps Cmte

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 10

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when. Each name opens every filing that named the same body.

Lobbying activity 6

Education

College affordability; student loans; open source textbooks; name image likeness policy; endowments.

Science/Technology

Nanotechnology; funding for National Science Foundation & NIST; OSTP; NASA; Department of Energy Office of Science.

Energy/Nuclear

Policies and legislation impacting federal extramural research grantmaking, particularly related to basic research.

Defense

Nanotechnology research; bioengineering.

Budget/Appropriations

Funding for Health & Human Services, National Science Foundation, and Department of Defense.

Foreign Relations

Supporting Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy proposals related to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.