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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$750K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
8 filings
$170K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4552119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2465119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
Nicole VenableInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst/Fellow, Rep. Lee Hamilton (1992-1993);
Leg. Asst, Sen. Chuck Robb (1993-1996);
Congressional Affairs Liaison, USTR (1996-1998);
Sr Policy Adv, Rep. William J. Jefferson (1998-02);
Chief of Staff, Rep. William J. Jefferson (2004-2005)30 filingsthrough 2026
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)14 filingsthrough 2022
Charles LaddInvariant LLC12 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph BushongInvariant LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: navy-pier.
7 filings
$160K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$30K 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.
118th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
2 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 9028118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2437118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4796118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8254117th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8294117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 9170119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
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: Sr. Policy Advr, Sen. Dick Durbin (2016-2023); Dep. CoS, Rep. Mike Quigley (2016); Leg. Dir., Rep. Mike Quigley (2013-2016); Leg. Counsel, Rep. Mike Quigley (2012-2013); Leg. Fellow, Rep. Ted Deutch (2011-2012)
Anne PalisiInvariant LLCCovered position: Director Special Projects, Education and the Workforce Committee (2016-2016)
Deputy Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner (2013-2015);
Chief of Staff, Rep. Diane Black (2011-2013)2 filingsthrough 2019
Max FrankelInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Mike Quigley (2021) Sr Policy Advisor, Rep. Mike Quigley (2019-2021) Sr Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Quigley (2018-2019) Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Quigley (2016-2018)1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
