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.
Lindley ShererInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief/Staff, Rep. Elise Stefanik (2015-2018);
Leg Dir, Rep. Scott Tipton (2013-2014);
Leg Dir, Rep. Todd Rokita (2011-2013);
Spec Adv, Treas Dept (2007-2008);
Spec Asst, Exec Off. of the Pres (2005-2006);
Spec Asst, Off. of the VP (2002-2005)10 filingsthrough 2023
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)9 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: lilt.
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.
10 filings
$600K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
8 filings
$390K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
6 filings
$320K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$310K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$90K 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
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025
3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3932118th CongressIntelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 9026118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2103118th CongressIntelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2321118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4797118th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4921118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20232 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Matthew BormetBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Ass't, Sen. Ron Wyden; Leg Ass't, US Rep Rick Larsen7 filingsthrough 2021
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)6 filingsthrough 2022
Stoney BurkeAquia Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Chet Edwards (2006-2008) Chief of Staff, Rep. Will Hurd (2015-2018)5 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan DattiloAquia Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel, House Judiciary Committee, Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee (2017-2018) Senior Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee (2018-2019) Chief Counsel for Antitrust and Bankruptcy, Senate Judiciary (2019 -2021)5 filingsthrough 2026
Austin AgrellaAquia Group, LLCCovered position: Leg Dir, Rep. Will Hurd (2015-2019) Congressional Liaison, NTIA (2019-2020); Special Asst to President and Deputy Cabinet Secretary, EEOP (2020-2021); Staff Dir for Cyber Sub, House Homeland (2021- 2022); Parliamentarian, House Approps (2022-2024)5 filingsthrough 2026
Charles LaddInvariant LLCCovered position: Policy Assistant, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (2020-2021); Intern, Office of Senator Michael D. Crapo (2019)5 filingsthrough 2025
Richard HoarBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff Mbr, House Cmte on ED. & the workforce, Deputy Chief of Staff & Leg Dir. U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis3 filingsthrough 2021
Luke StrimerBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Staff Assistant, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall3 filingsthrough 2021
Mariah CarrayInvariant LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, Committee on Homeland Security (2021-2023); Leg Asst, Rep. Norma Torres (2019-2021); Rep. Juan Vargas: Leg Correspondent/Policy Adv, (2018-2019); Sched Coordinator (2017-2018); Intern, Sen. Al Franken (2016)2 filingsthrough 2025
Emma BaldinoInvariant LLCCovered position: Intern, Sen. Mark Warner (2020)2 filingsthrough 2025
Sara K. HaganInvariant LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense (2007-2025)2 filingsthrough 2025
Monica MatoushInvariant LLCCovered position: Communications Director, House Armed Services Director (2019-2022); Senior Advisor the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (2022)2 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 15 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
