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: national-cannabis-industry-association.
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.
TAX
59 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
48 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$45K on those filings
Veterans
VET
2 filings
$60K 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
Small Business Tax Equity Act of 2017
15 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 975115th CongressRespect State Marijuana Laws Act of 201712 filingsthrough 2018
S. 777115th CongressSmall Business Tax Equity Act of 201712 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1855114th CongressSmall Business Tax Equity Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
S. 987114th CongressSmall Business Tax Equity Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2215115th CongressSAFE Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1152115th CongressSAFE Banking Act11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1996117th CongressSecure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 910117th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1595116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1013114th CongressRegulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1014114th CongressMarijuana Tax Revenue Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 683114th CongressCARERS Act of 20158 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.
Covered position:
11 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew ShoreJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: See prior filing11 filingsthrough 2017
Michael KatzJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: See prior filing.11 filingsthrough 2017
Amber B. FahyJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: See prior filing11 filingsthrough 2017
Heather PodestaInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui; Counsel, Representative Earl Pomeroy; Legislative Fellow, Senator Bill Bradley; Research Assistant, Congressional Budget Office8 filingsthrough 2017
Darin Lynn GardnerJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Kay Granger; Legislative Director, Rep Kay Granger; Research Associate Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; Leg Correspondent, Sen. Tim Hutchison8 filingsthrough 2017
Jonathan BeckerInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Amy Klobuchar; Chief Counsel, Senator Amy Klobuchar7 filingsthrough 2017
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 Conrad7 filingsthrough 2016
Steve FoxVs Strategies LLC5 filingsthrough 2019
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 Gephardt5 filingsthrough 2016
Madeline GrantNational Cannabis Industry AssociationCovered position: Government Relations Manager4 filingsthrough 2020
Patrice WilloughbyInvariant LLCCovered position: Dep Assoc Admin, Intergovt Affairs Office, GSA Exec Dir, CBC, Rep. Barbara Lee Leg Asst, Counsel, Chief/Staff, Rep. Tubbs Jones3 filingsthrough 2016
Erin MoffetErin MoffetCovered position: FL Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, March 2019-Oct 2022; Charlie Crist, Jan 2017-Feb 2019; Patrick E. Murphy, Jan 2013-Jan 2017; Lois Frankel, Feb 2015-Sept 2015; Alcee Hastings, July 2010-Dec 20132 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan; Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan2 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 16 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
