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.
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
Dena Baron SmithInvariant LLCCovered position: Subcmte Staff Dir/Clerk, Appropriations Cmte, U.S. House of Representatives (2005-2021); Pro Staff Member/Staff Asst, Appropriations Cmte, U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2004); Program Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1995-1999)10 filingsthrough 2026
Jenness SimlerInvariant LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services (2005-2017)9 filingsthrough 2026
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: wiz-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.
CPI
10 filings
$500K on those filings
Defense
DEF
9 filings
$870K 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
Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2026
3 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5079119th CongressWidespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure and Government Act1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 8595119th CongressNational Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 9022119th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 3290119th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20261 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 5009118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20251 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 9029118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20251 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.
Mitch HerckisWiz, Inc.Covered position: Office of Management and Budget, Branch Director of Federal Cybersecurity at the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer, Acting Director of Federal Cybersecurity at the Office of the Federal CIO.
9 filingsthrough 2026
Jack SchulerInvariant LLCCovered position: Budget Director, House Armed Services Committee (2009-2019)7 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew McginleyAdvanced Policy Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom Price; Chief of Staff, Republican Policy Committee; DCOS & LD, Rep. Brian Kerns6 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)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
Theodore TanzerInvariant LLCCovered 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)5 filingsthrough 2025
Jennifer ThibodeauWiz, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2026
Monica MatoushInvariant LLCCovered position: Communications Director, House Armed Services Director (2019-2022); Senior Advisor the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (2022)1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 10 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
