15 filings from 2 registrants · 2016–2019 · latest filed Jan 16, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$390K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$390K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Agriculture
AGR
5 filings
$240K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$240K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2898114th CongressWestern Water and American Food Security Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2533114th CongressCalifornia Long-Term Provisions for Water Supply and Short-Term Provisions for Emergency Drought Relief Act3 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Anne MacmillanInvariant LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Representative Bob Matsui; Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director, Representative Dennis Cardoza; Policy Advisor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Deputy Chief of Staff, US Department of Agriculture6 filingsthrough 2017
Heather PodestaInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui; Counsel, Representative Earl Pomeroy; Legislative Fellow, Senator Bill Bradley; Research Assistant, Congressional Budget Office4 filingsthrough 2017
LEONARD BICKWIT jrMiller & Chevalier, Chtd2 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew L HowlettMiller & Chevalier, Chtd
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: the-wonderful-company-llc.
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.
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$150K 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.
2 filings
through 2018
Sean MorrisonMiller & Chevalier, ChtdCovered position: Senate Committee on Finance, Research Assistant; Office of Senator Max Baucus, Legislative Correspondent; Office of Senator Max Baucus, Database Manager2 filingsthrough 2018
Sean JoyceInvariant LLCCovered position: Rep. Bill Shuster: Communications Director, Leg. Director, Shared employee w/ Transportation & Infrastructure Comm.; Chief of Staff, Rep. Patrick McHenry1 filingthrough 2017
Amy SwongerInvariant LLCCovered position: Whip Liaison, Senator Trent Lott; Dep Asst for Leg Aff, Vice President Dick Cheney; Fl Asst, Senator Mitch McConnell; Legislative Assistant, Senator Trent Lott; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Walter Jones; Intern, Rep. Walter Jones1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
