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.
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: ecolab.
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.
HCR
28 filings
$910K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
19 filings
$550K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
16 filings
$800K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
16 filings
$530K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
12 filings
$310K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$80K 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.
115th Congress
Personal Care Products Safety Act
6 filingsthrough 2018
S. 483116th CongressPesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1014114th CongressPersonal Care Products Safety Act4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6379116th CongressWorkforce Emergency Response Act of 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2740116th CongressOver-the-Counter Monograph Safety, Innovation, and Reform Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3042115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 269116th CongressPandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3052116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 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.
23 filingsthrough 2026
Nicole VenableInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst/Fellow, Rep. Lee Hamilton (1992-1993);
Leg. Asst, Sen. Chuck Robb (1993-1996);
Congressional Affairs Liaison, USTR (1996-1998);
Sr Policy Adv, Rep. William J. Jefferson (1998-02);
Chief of Staff, Rep. William J. Jefferson (2004-2005)23 filingsthrough 2026
Logan Lawrence HollersInvariant LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor / Counsel, Senator Jeff Merkley (2018-2021); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (2017-2018)17 filingsthrough 2026
Gary J LapailleMcapitol Management17 filingsthrough 2014
Jared WeaverAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Anna Eshoo14 filingsthrough 2018
Lee JangerMcapitol Management14 filingsthrough 2015
Martin WhitmerWhitmer & Worrall, LLCCovered position: Deputy CoS - DOT13 filingsthrough 2022
Gabriel PellathyWhitmer & Worrall, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor & Deputy CoS - DOC13 filingsthrough 2022
Barry BrownAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Burgess & Rep. Kay Granger; Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady13 filingsthrough 2018
Annie D'AmatoInvariant LLCCovered position: Democratic Counsel, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2023); Professional Staff, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2019-2022)11 filingsthrough 2026
Larry William WernerMcapitol Management11 filingsthrough 2014
Lucia G LebensMcapitol Management11 filingsthrough 2011
Erich MischeMcapitol Management6 filingsthrough 2011
Douglas DziakInvariant LLCCovered position: Commissioner, CPSC (24-25); Chf Couns, CPSC Commr Peter Feldman (21-24); Staff Dir/Gen Couns, Sen Budget Cmte (20-21); Leg Dir, Sen Mike Enzi 18-20; Leg Dir and Chf Couns, Sen George Voinovich (09-11); Gen Couns, Sen Homeland Security Cmte (06-09)4 filingsthrough 2026
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)4 filingsthrough 2021
Thomas WorrallWhitmer & Worrall, LLC2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 14 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
