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: mercari-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.
CPI
21 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
14 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
14 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Postal
POS
4 filings
$370K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 filings
$100K 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.
H.R. 4521117th CongressStrategic Competition Act of 20213 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.
Covered position:
9 filingsthrough 2024
Kevin WalshInvariant LLCCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator Claire McCaskill (2008-2011)8 filingsthrough 2023
Adin MengelInvariant LLC7 filingsthrough 2025
Theodore TanzerInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel, House Energy & Commerce (23-24); Counsel, Commissioner Feldman, US CPSC (19-22); Pro. Staff Member, Sen. Commerce Committee (19); Law Clerk, Sen. Commerce Committee (18-19); Fellow, Sen. Thune (18); Intern, Sen. Repub. Conference (18)5 filingsthrough 2025
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)4 filingsthrough 2025
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)3 filingsthrough 2022
Kristopher DenzelInvariant LLCCovered position: COS, Rep. Brad Knott (2025-2026); Leg Director, Rep. George Holding (2014-2017); Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. George Holding (2013-2014); Leg Assistant, Rep. Bob Dold (2011-2013); Leg Correspondent, Rep. Bob Dold (2011)2 filingsthrough 2026
Jason GoldmanInvariant LLCCovered position: NTIA: Acting Director of Congressional Affairs (25-26), Dep Director of Congressional Affairs and Telecom Policy Adv (20-26), Acting Director of Congressional Affairs and Acting Dep COS (21-22), Congressional Liaison and Telecom Policy Adv (19-20)2 filingsthrough 2026
Halie CraigInvariant LLCCovered position: Plcy Dir, Sen Commerce Cmte(23-24); Sr Adv, Sen Pat Toomey/Sen Banking Cmte(22-23); Plcy Adv, Sen Banking Cmte(21-22); Sen Pat Toomey: Leg Asst(18-19), Leg Aide(18), Leg Corr(17-18); Staff Asst, Sen Rules Cmte(16-17); Intern, Sen Tim Johnson(12)1 filingthrough 2026
