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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
19 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
18 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2207119th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the treatment of digital assets.2 filingsthrough 2025
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.
Brian MorgensternRiot Platforms, Inc.Covered position: Special Assistant to the President; Senior Advisor and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department; Clerk for the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee; Staff Assistant to Member of the House of Representatives16 filingsthrough 2026
Joey SmithInvariant LLCCovered position: Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the Secretary, Department of the Interior, 2007-2009; Director of Operations, Department of the Treasury, 2017-20205 filingsthrough 2025
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: riot-platforms-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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
17 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Banking
BAN
9 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$160K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
2 filings
$150K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
1 filing
$90K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Retirement
RET
1 filing
$50K 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.
Noah MarineInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (2013-2017); Leg. Asst, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (2011-2013)5 filingsthrough 2025
James ObrienInvariant LLCCovered position: Pro. Staff Member, Ways and Means Committee (22-23); Rep Kevin Brady: Leg. Dir. (21-22); Sr. Leg. Asst (19-21); Sen Mitch McConnell: Leg. Correspondent (18-19); Staff Asst (17-18); Intern (16)5 filingsthrough 2025
Colleen Kaveney MossCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Senator Roy Blunt2 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen SandoraCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Sr Counselor, Office of the Dep Secretary, DoT; Proff Staff, House Financial Services Cmte ; Special Advisor, Office of Economic Policy, DoT, Leg Assistant (Capito); Leg Aide (Fitzpatrick)2 filingsthrough 2026
Alden KnowltonInvariant LLC2 filingsthrough 2025
Terry Van DorenCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Confidential Assistant, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of U.S. Senator Mike Johanns; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Republican Leader Mitch McConnell1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
