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.
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$430K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$430K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8495119th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 9022119th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
Jenness SimlerInvariant LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services (2005-2017)8 filingsthrough 2026
Jack SchulerInvariant LLCCovered position: Budget Director, House Armed Services Committee (2009-2019)6 filingsthrough 2026
Theodore TanzerInvariant LLC
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: vanta-inc.
7 filings
$430K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
5 filings
$350K on those filings
Veterans
VET
1 filing
$70K 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.
119th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027
1 filingthrough 2026
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.
Covered position: Sr. Counsel, House Energy & Commerce (23-24); Counsel, Commissioner Feldman, US CPSC (19-22); Pro. Staff Member, Sen. Commerce Committee (19); Law Clerk, Sen. Commerce Committee (18-19); Fellow, Sen. Thune (18); Intern, Sen. Repub. Conference (18)
6 filingsthrough 2025
Sean SweeneyInvariant LLCCovered position: U.S. Department of Commerce, CHIPS Program Office: Dep Dir of Leg Affairs (2024-2025); Leg Affairs Adv (2024); Sen. Mark Warner: Leg Asst (2021-2024); Leg Correspondent (2015-2018); State Scheduler (2015)5 filingsthrough 2026
Melanie HarrisInvariant LLCCovered position: Program Examiner, National Security Division, White House Office of Management and Budget (2015 - 2019); Professional Staff Member, House of Representatives Armed Services Committee (2019 - 2022)4 filingsthrough 2025
Jason GoldmanInvariant LLCCovered position: NTIA: Acting Director of Congressional Affairs (25-26), Dep Director of Congressional Affairs and Telecom Policy Adv (20-26), Acting Director of Congressional Affairs and Acting Dep COS (21-22), Congressional Liaison and Telecom Policy Adv (19-20)2 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan (2005-2007)2 filingsthrough 2024
Jennifer JacobyInvariant LLC1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
