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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
8 filings
$230K 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2879115th CongressFLIGHT Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
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: baby-bair-flight-vests.
115th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018
2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3354115th CongressMake America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Covered position: Rep Bill Shuster: Communications Director, Legislative Director, Shared employee w/ Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Patrick McHenry
3 filingsthrough 2017
Anne PalisiInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Diane Black; Deputy Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Director Special Projects, Education and the Workforce Committee2 filingsthrough 2017
Larissa MartinezInvariant LLCCovered position: Executive Director and Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Deb Fischer; Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Hagel; Legislative Correspondent, Representative Nathan Deal; Assistant Scheduler, Senator Johnny Isakson2 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
