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
17 filings
$640K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$30K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
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: moth-flame-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.
LBR
4 filings
$320K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$20K 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.
119th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20222 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 9495119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 1605117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20221 filingthrough 2021
S. 2792117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20221 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20211 filingthrough 2020
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.
Maia Hunt EstesInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Anthony Brown (2017-2020)6 filingsthrough 2021
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)5 filingsthrough 2021
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)5 filingsthrough 2021
Venkatasatya KroviInvariant LLCCovered position: Rep. Brenda Lawrence: Chief of Staff (2019-2020); Deputy Chief of Staff & Leg. Director (2018-2019); Leg. Director (2017-2018); Senior Leg. Assistant/Policy Advisor (2015-2017); Rep. Charlie Melancon:
Staff Assistant/Leg. Correspondent (2009-2011)5 filingsthrough 2021
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)2 filingsthrough 2021
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)2 filingsthrough 2021
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 2020
Covered positions · 10 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
