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.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
24 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
21 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Banking
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3223119th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish procedures relating to the attribution of errors in the case of third party payors of payroll taxes, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20241 filingthrough 2024
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.
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)21 filingsthrough 2026
Amy SwongerInvariant LLCCovered position: Asst for Leg Aff, Pres. Trump 2020-2021; Dep Asst for Leg Aff, Pres. Trump 2017-2020; Whip Liaison, Sen. Trent Lott 2007-2008; Dep Asst for Leg Aff, VP Cheney 2004-2006; Fl Asst, Sen. Mitch McConnell 2003-2004; Leg. Asst, Sen. Trent Lott 2001-200220 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen WeylerInvariant LLCCovered position: Health and Labor Fellow, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education & Labor (2019)14 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: trinet-usa-inc.
BAN
1 filing
$80K 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.
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan (2007-2010);
Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan (2005-2007)11 filingsthrough 2023
Matthew FeryInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Brian Higgins (2017-2024); Health Insurance Specialist, CMS (2016-2017); Legislative Counsel, Rep. Brian Higgins (2006-2013)9 filingsthrough 2026
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)9 filingsthrough 2025
Evan Christopher SmithInvariant LLC7 filingsthrough 2024
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)7 filingsthrough 2021
Anne PalisiInvariant LLCCovered position: Dir. Special Projects, Education and the Workforce Comm. (2016-2016);
Member Services Advisor, House Homeland Security Comm. (2015);
Deputy Dir. of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner (2013-2015);
Chief of Staff, Rep. Diane Black (2011-2013)4 filingsthrough 2021
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, 2017-20204 filingsthrough 2021
Carolyn G CodaInvariant LLCCovered position: Special Assistant, Office of Legislative Affairs, US Department of the Treasury (2006-2008)3 filingsthrough 2021
Drew GriffinInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Robert Latta (2019-2022); Comms Dir, Rep. Robert Latta (2016-2019); Press Sec, Rep. Erik Paulsen (2014-2016); Press Sec, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (2013-2014); Staff Asst, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (2011-2013)1 filingthrough 2026
Heather PodestaInvariant LLC1 filingthrough 2023
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)1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 12 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.