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.
Mary Elizabeth StantonInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst, Sen. Kohl (2006-2007);
Policy Adv, Sen. Aging Comm. (2004-2006);
Leg. Asst, Rep. Weiner (2004);
Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Kohl (2003-2004);
Staff Asst, Sen. Kohl (2002-2003);
Intern, Rep. Gephardt (2001);
Intern, Rep. Dingell (2000)32 filingsthrough 2026
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)25 filingsthrough 2025
Noah MarineInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (2013-2017); Leg. Asst, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (2011-2013)16 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: the-american-council-of-life-insurers.
fees reported
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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.
30 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
22 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
14 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
13 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$640K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$510K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
5 filings
$550K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$370K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$240K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$40K 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
Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 862117th CongressCLAIM Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 910117th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2891118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1323118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1359118th CongressCLAIM Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1694118th CongressFederal Insurance Office Abolishment Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 567118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2001117th CongressDiversity Data Accountability Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2123117th CongressDiversity and Inclusion Data Accountability and Transparency Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 824117th CongressStop China’s IP Theft Act7 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Heather PodestaInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui (2003);
Counsel, Representative Earl Pomeroy (2002-2003);
Legislative Fellow, Senator Bill Bradley (1993-1994);
Research Assistant, Congressional Budget Office (1992)15 filingsthrough 2022
Jennifer JacobyInvariant LLC8 filingsthrough 2026
Carolyn G CodaInvariant LLCCovered position: Special Assistant, Office of Legislative Affairs, US Department of the Treasury (2006-2008)8 filingsthrough 2020
Robert T GrandBarnes & Thornburg, LLP8 filingsthrough 2018
Ashley Rose O'SullivanInvariant LLC6 filingsthrough 2026
Marcus Davis-MercerInvariant LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. Steve Cohen (2021)4 filingsthrough 2026
Paul Charles NemetzInvariant LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (2019-2021)4 filingsthrough 2024
Craig S BurkhardtBarnes & Thornburg, LLP4 filingsthrough 2017
Edward P AyoobBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senator Harry Reid; Counsel, Assistant Majority Leader4 filingsthrough 2017
Brian L BurdickBarnes & Thornburg, LLP3 filingsthrough 2017
Joseph VaughanInvariant LLC2 filingsthrough 2022
Patrice WilloughbyInvariant LLCCovered position: Dep Assoc Admin, Intergovt Affairs Office, GSA (2011-2012);
Exec Dir, CBC, Rep. Barbara Lee (2008-2011);
Leg Asst, Counsel, Chief/Staff, Rep. Tubbs Jones (2000-2008)2 filingsthrough 2018
Matthew RussellInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Committee on Ways and Means (2016-2018)1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 10 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
