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.
Animals
ANI
5 filings
$30K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4521117th CongressStrategic Competition Act of 20211 filingthrough 2022
Anne MacmillanInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Deputy Chief of Staff, US Dept. of Agriculture (2010-2014); Policy Advisor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (2009-2010); Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director, Rep. Dennis Cardoza (2003-2009); Staff Assistant, Rep. Bob Matsui (2001-2002)5 filingsthrough 2022
Adam TarrInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr Pro Staff, Sen Cmte on Ag, Nutrition & Forestry 19-22; Leg Asst, Sen Casey 17-19; Sr Advisor, USDA, Off of the Sec 16-17; COS, USDA, Off for Food Safety 14-16; Sen Specter: Leg Asst 09-10, Leg Aide 08-09, Leg Correspondent 07-09, Staff Asst 06-075 filingsthrough 2022
Michael EspositoFederal Advocates, Inc.Covered position: President5 filingsthrough 2019
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: petco-animal-supplies-stores-inc.
$160K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
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.
117th Congress
United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021
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.
D MICHAEL STROUD jrFederal Advocates, Inc.Covered position: Depty Chief Counsel, House Homeland Security Committee; Depty Assistant Secy Legislative Affairs, Dept of Homeland Security
5 filingsthrough 2019
Patrick AndersonFederal Advocates, Inc.Covered position: Leg Aide to Rep. Henry Bonilla4 filingsthrough 2019
Victoria HonardFederal Advocates, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2018
Kathryn WiseInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Vern Buchanan (2014-2015);
Leg. Dir, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (2013-2014);
Sr. Legislative Asst, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (2011-2013);
Legislative Correspondent/Asst, Rep. Mary Fallin (2010-2011);
Staff Asst, Rep. Mary Fallin (2009-2010)3 filingsthrough 2021
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)3 filingsthrough 2021
Annabell Mcwherter StokesInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Senator Johnny Isakson (2018-2020);
Law Clerk, U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Senator Johnny Isakson (2018-2018)3 filingsthrough 2021
