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.
Computer Industry
CPI
27 filings
$1.6M 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 754114th CongressAn act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2015
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Heather PodestaInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui,Counsel, Representative Earl PomeroyLegislative Fellow, Senator Bill BradleyResearch Assistant, Congressional Budget Office24 filingsthrough 2018
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)17 filingsthrough 2019
Robert HoffmanInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director/ Acting Chief of Staff, Senator Mike DeWine; Legislative Director, Senator Larry Pressler11 filingsthrough 2018
The filings
The 20 most recent of 28 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: nss-labs-inc.
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan
Larissa MartinezInvariant LLCCovered position: Executive Director and Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Deb Fischer (2012-2015); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2006-2009); Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Nathan Deal (2005-2006); Assistant Scheduler, Sen. Johnny Isakson (2004-2005)3 filingsthrough 2018
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)2 filingsthrough 2019
