30 filings from 1 registrant · 2018–2025 · latest filed Nov 26, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$2.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.1M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Homeland Security
HOM
25 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
15 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 21 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Dena Baron SmithInvariant LLCCovered position: Subcmte Staff Dir/Clerk, Appropriations Cmte, U.S. House of Representatives (2005-2021); Pro Staff Member/Staff Asst, Appropriations Cmte, U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2004); Program Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1995-1999)16 filingsthrough 2025
Nick MikulaInvariant LLCCovered position: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, Special Assistant (2018-2021); House Armed Services cmte: Pro. Staff Member/Dep. Comms Dir. (2018); Pro. Staff Member/Press Secretary (2017-2018); Press Secretary (2015-2017)14 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 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: gotenna.
12 filings
$780K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
5 filings
$210K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
3 filings
$240K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$160K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
2 filings
$160K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$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.
118th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
4 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20244 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 3931116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
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.
Maia Hunt EstesInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Anthony Brown (2017-2020)13 filingsthrough 2023
Anne PalisiInvariant LLCCovered position: Director Special Projects, Education and the Workforce Committee (2016-2016)
Deputy Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner (2013-2015);
Chief of Staff, Rep. Diane Black (2011-2013)12 filingsthrough 2021
Charles LaddInvariant LLCCovered position: Policy Assistant, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (2020-2021); Intern, Office of Senator Michael D. Crapo (2019)7 filingsthrough 2025
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan (2007-2010);
Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan (2005-2007)5 filingsthrough 2020
Paul ArcangeliInvariant LLCCovered position: House Armed Services committee: Staff Dir. (2019-2022), Minority Staff Dir. (2011-2019), Staff Dir. (2009-2011), Deputy Staff Dir. (2008-2009), Professional Staff Member (2004-2008); DOD Humanitarian Demining training center: Dir. (2001-2004)4 filingsthrough 2024
Jessica PowellInvariant LLCCovered position: Rep. Steve Womack: Deputy CoS, (2023-2024); Legislative Dir (2021-2023); Sr. Legislative Asst, (2019-2021); Legislative Asst (2017-2019); Staff Asst, Rep. French Hill (2016-2017); Staff Asst, Sen. Tom Cotton (2015-2016)3 filingsthrough 2025
Timothy MartinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Rodney Davis (2015-2017); Sr. Legislative Assistant and General Counsel, Rep. Scott Tipton (2014-2015)3 filingsthrough 2021
Monica MatoushInvariant LLCCovered position: Communications Director, House Armed Services Director (2019-2022); Senior Advisor the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (2022)1 filingthrough 2024
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
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)1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 13 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
