71 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed Oct 20, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$4.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$4.8M
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.
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: macandrews-forbes-group-llc.
fees reported
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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.
27 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Education
EDU
21 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
18 filings
$1M on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM
17 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
14 filings
$800K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
11 filings
$410K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
8 filings
$540K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$410K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$300K 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
Postal Service Reform Act of 2017
5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1429113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20145 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1014114th CongressPersonal Care Products Safety Act4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2051114th CongressImproving Postal Operations, Service, and Transparency Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1034113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20144 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2230112th CongressInternet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2366112th CongressInternet Gambling Prohibition, Poker Consumer Protection, and Strengthening UIGEA Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
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.
22 filingsthrough 2017
Eric RosenInvariant LLCCovered position: Asst U.S. Atty, N. Dist of CA, Dept of Justice ; ; Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. Anthony Weiner ; ; Dep Dir, Dept of Justice Office of Intergovt Affair ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Chet Atkins16 filingsthrough 2015
Jennifer LatouretteVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Steven LaTourette; Special Assistant/Senior Legislative Assistant/Scheduler, Congressman Robert Borski; Pres Intern/Deputy Finance Director, Senator Max Baucus14 filingsthrough 2020
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates14 filingsthrough 2012
Matt HenkenVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Ed Perlmutter; Associate Staff, House Committee on Rules; Congressional Aide, Congressman Mark Udall;12 filingsthrough 2020
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan; Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan10 filingsthrough 2017
Bobby Joseph BabcockVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant/Legislative Assistant, Congressman Steve King; and Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison9 filingsthrough 2017
GEORGE MATTHEW BERNIER iiiVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Leg Correspond, Representative Rick Santorum9 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen BaileyInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr Tax Csl, Cong Jnt Comm on Deficit Reduction; Sr Analyst, Revenue/Tax Csl, Sen. Budget Comm.; Leg Asst/ Tax Counsel, Sen. Kent Conrad6 filingsthrough 2017
Amy SwongerInvariant LLCCovered position: Whip Liaison, Senator Trent Lott; Dep Asst for Leg Aff, Vice President Dick Cheney; Fl Asst, Senator Mitch McConnell; Legislative Assistant, Senator Trent Lott; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Walter Jones; Intern, Rep. Walter Jones5 filingsthrough 2017
Mary Elizabeth StantonInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Herb Kohl ; ; Policy Advisor, Senate Aging Committee ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Anthony Weiner ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Herb Kohl ; ; Staff Assistant, Senator Herb Kohl ; ; Intern, Rep. Richard Gephardt3 filingsthrough 2017
Jonathan BeckerInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Amy Klobuchar; Chief Counsel, Senator Amy Klobuchar3 filingsthrough 2016
Anne MacmillanInvariant LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Representative Bob Matsui; Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director, Representative Dennis Cardoza; Policy Advisor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Deputy Chief of Staff, US Department of Agriculture3 filingsthrough 2016
Lauren Henry CowlesVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Appropriations Legislative Assistant, Senator Mark Pryor; Professional Staff Member, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; and Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Senator Mark Pryor2 filingsthrough 2018
Robert HoffmanInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director/ Acting Chief of Staff, Senator Mike DeWine; Legislative Director, Senator Larry Pressler2 filingsthrough 2016
Mark TavlaridesVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: StaffDir,ForAffComm,Subcomm on Human Rights2 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 19 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
