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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
24 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
12 filings
$490K 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
Michael J BellHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Special Asst to the Atty Gen - Legislative Affairs, DOJ (2003-2005); Deputy Associate Director for Personnel The White House (2001-2003)13 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)
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: merlin-labs.
$490K
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.
117th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4921118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1605117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3023117th CongressA bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 4784119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 7776117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 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.
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)
11 filingsthrough 2025
Morgan Lorraine VinaInvariant LLCCovered position: COS, International Security Affairs, Office of the Sec. of Defense (19-21); COS, U.S. Mission to UN, DOS (18-19); Sr Advisor, U.S. Mission to UN, DOS (17-18); Sr Policy Analyst, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign8 filingsthrough 2025
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)8 filingsthrough 2022
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)5 filingsthrough 2022
Sara K. HaganInvariant LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense (2007-2025)4 filingsthrough 2026
Charles LaddInvariant LLCCovered position: Policy Assistant, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (2020-2021); Intern, Office of Senator Michael D. Crapo (2019)2 filingsthrough 2023
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 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)1 filingthrough 2026
Emma BaldinoInvariant LLCCovered position: Intern, Sen. Mark Warner (2020)1 filingthrough 2026
Maia Hunt EstesInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Anthony Brown (2017-2020)1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 13 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
