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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
32 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
14 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 7812119th CongressSecuring Accountability in Foreign Entries Act2 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4003119th CongressSecuring Accountability in Foreign Entries Act2 filingsthrough 2026
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.
Ray BuchegerFbb Federal Relations17 filingsthrough 2024
Peter FriedmannFbb Federal Relations17 filingsthrough 2024
Timothy MartinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Rodney Davis (2015-2017); Sr. Legislative Assistant and General Counsel, Rep. Scott Tipton (2014-2015)15 filingsthrough 2026
Maia Hunt EstesInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Anthony Brown (2017-2020)10 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
The 20 most recent of 37 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: flexport-inc.
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.
TAR
6 filings
$742K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
6 filings
$742K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
3 filings
$288K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
1 filing
$152K 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.
Joseph BushongInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr. Policy Advr, Sen. Dick Durbin (2016-2023); Dep. CoS, Rep. Mike Quigley (2016); Leg. Dir., Rep. Mike Quigley (2013-2016); Leg. Counsel, Rep. Mike Quigley (2012-2013); Leg. Fellow, Rep. Ted Deutch (2011-2012)8 filingsthrough 2026
Darien Bailey FlowersFlexport, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Policy Director, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate); Senior Advisor, Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; Legislative Aide (Sen. Cassidy, M.D.); Research Assistant, Committee on Homeland Security (Senate)8 filingsthrough 2023
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)4 filingsthrough 2022
Ryan DilworthInvariant LLCCovered position: Rep. Beth Van Duyne: Chief of Staff (2024-2026), Leg Director (2021-2024); Rep. Bob Gibbs: Senior Policy Advisor (2020-2021), Sr Leg Aide (2018-2019), Leg Aide (2017), Constituent Services Representative (2015-2017)2 filingsthrough 2026
James ObrienInvariant LLCCovered position: Pro. Staff Member, Ways and Means Committee (22-23); Rep Kevin Brady: Leg. Dir. (21-22); Sr. Leg. Asst (19-21); Sen Mitch McConnell: Leg. Correspondent (18-19); Staff Asst (17-18); Intern (16)2 filingsthrough 2025
Heather PodestaInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui (2003);
Counsel, Representative Earl Pomeroy (2002-2003);
Legislative Fellow, Senator Bill Bradley (1993-1994);
Research Assistant, Congressional Budget Office (1992)2 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 10 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
