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
17 filings
$870K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
1 filing
$60K 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.
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.
Joey SmithInvariant LLCCovered position: Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the Secretary, Department of the Interior, 2007-2009; Director of Operations, Department of the Treasury, 2017-202020 filingsthrough 2024
Logan Lawrence HollersInvariant LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor / Counsel, Senator Jeff Merkley (2018-2021); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (2017-2018)14 filingsthrough 2024
Stephen WeylerInvariant LLCCovered position: Health and Labor Fellow, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education & Labor (2019)14 filingsthrough 2024
Benjamin Klein
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: globe-manufacturing-company-llc-a-subsidiary-of-msa-safety-inc.
Covered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan (2007-2010);
Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan (2005-2007)
10 filingsthrough 2022
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
Anne PalisiInvariant LLCCovered position: Dir. Special Projects, Education and the Workforce Comm. (2016-2016);
Member Services Advisor, House Homeland Security Comm. (2015);
Deputy Dir. of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner (2013-2015);
Chief of Staff, Rep. Diane Black (2011-2013)2 filingsthrough 2020
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)1 filingthrough 2020
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)1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 8 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
