29 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2024 · latest filed Oct 20, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Homeland Security
HOM
16 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
12 filings
$1.2M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan; Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan17 filingsthrough 2021
Heather PodestaInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui; Counsel, Representative Earl Pomeroy;
Legislative Fellow, Senator Bill Bradley; Research Assistant, Congressional Budget Office15 filingsthrough 2021
Anne PalisiInvariant LLCCovered position: Director Special Projects, Education and the Workforce Committee (2016-2016) Deputy Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner (2013-2015); Chief of Staff, Rep. Diane Black (2011-2013)12 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 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: anduril-industries.
115th Congress
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2019
3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20212 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20201 filingthrough 2019
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2019
H.R. 3401116th CongressEmergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 20191 filingthrough 2019
H.R. 3931116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2019
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.
Noah Kowalski
Invariant LLC
Covered position: Legislative Correspondence Manager, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (2012-2014)
10 filingsthrough 2021
Lindley ShererInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief/Staff, Rep. Elise Stefanik (2015-2018); Leg Dir, Rep. Scott Tipton (2013-2014); Leg Dir, Rep. Todd Rokita (2011-2013); Spec Adv, Treas Dept (2007-2008); Spec Asst, Exec Off. of the Pres (2005-2006); Spec Asst, Off. of the VP (2002-2005)8 filingsthrough 2021
Quincy EnochInvariant LLC5 filingsthrough 2020
Sean JoyceInvariant LLCCovered position: Rep Bill Shuster: Communications Director, Legislative Director, Shared employee w/ Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Patrick McHenry5 filingsthrough 2018
Robert HoffmanInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director/ Acting Chief of Staff, Senator Mike DeWine; Legislative Director, Senator Larry Pressler4 filingsthrough 2018
Mark FriedmannInvariant LLCCovered position: Director of Operations, Office of Presidential Personnel, Executive Office of the President (2016-2017); Special Assistant to the White House Liaison, Office of the Secretary, Department of Energy (2015-2016)3 filingsthrough 2021
Maia Hunt EstesInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Anthony Brown (2017-2020)2 filingsthrough 2021
Amy SwongerInvariant LLCCovered position: Asst for Leg Aff, Pres. Trump 2020-2021; Dep Asst for Leg Aff, Pres. Trump 2017-2020; Whip Liaison, Sen. Trent Lott 2007-2008; Dep Asst for Leg Aff, VP Cheney 2004-2006; Fl Asst, Sen. Mitch McConnell 2003-2004; Leg. Asst, Sen. Trent Lott 2001-20021 filingthrough 2021
Eric RosenInvariant LLCCovered position: Asst US Atty, N. Dist of CA, Dept of Justice (2006-2007) Counsel, Sen. Judiciary Comm (2001-2006); Leg. Dir, Rep. Anthony Weiner (1999-2001); Dep Dir, Dept of Justice Office of Intergovt Affair (1997-1999); Leg. Asst, Rep. Chet Atkins (1992-1993)1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 11 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
