Molekule Group — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Molekule Group
California
19 filings from 1 registrant · 2019–2023 · latest filed Dec 22, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.1M
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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
18 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
13 filings
$770K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4355117th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20225 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7609116th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20212 filingsthrough 2020
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan (2007-2010);
Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan (2005-2007)16 filingsthrough 2022
Christopher GillottInvariant LLCCovered position: Sen. Bill Cassidy: Deputy Chief of Staff, Policy (2018-2021); Legislative Dir (2013-2021); Sr Legislative Asst (2013); Rep. Bobby Jindal: Leg. Dir (2007-2008); Sr Legislative Asst (2005-2007); Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison: Leg Aide (2003-2005)9 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: molekule-group.
TRD
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$160K 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.
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.
Stephen WeylerInvariant LLCCovered position: Health and Labor Fellow, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education & Labor (2019)3 filingsthrough 2023
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)3 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
