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.
Health Issues
HCR
18 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF
10 filings
$600K 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 — 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
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.
Kathryn WiseInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Vern Buchanan (2014-2015);
Leg. Dir, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (2013-2014);
Sr. Legislative Asst, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (2011-2013);
Legislative Correspondent/Asst, Rep. Mary Fallin (2010-2011);
Staff Asst, Rep. Mary Fallin (2009-2010)18 filingsthrough 2024
Christopher GillottInvariant LLCCovered position: Sen. Bill Cassidy: Deputy Chief of Staff, Policy (2018-2021); Legislative Dir (2013-2021); Sr Legislative Asst (2013); Rep. Bobby Jindal: Leg. Dir (2007-2008); Sr Legislative Asst (2005-2007); Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison: Leg Aide (2003-2005)16 filingsthrough 2024
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan (2005-2007)15 filingsthrough 2024
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: antheia.
spend on filings that named this issue
Annabell Mcwherter StokesInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Senator Johnny Isakson (2018-2020);
Law Clerk, U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Senator Johnny Isakson (2018-2018)11 filingsthrough 2022
Stephen WeylerInvariant LLCCovered position: Health and Labor Fellow, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education & Labor (2019)5 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
