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.
Homeland Security
HOM
41 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$120K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2378119th CongressSAFEGUARDS Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8770119th CongressSAFEGUARDS Act of 20261 filingthrough 2026
Michael HigdonA1.9 Strategies LLCCovered position: Rep. Hal Rogers: Chief of Staff/Appropriations Associate 2011-2013, Legislative Director 2007-2011; Legislative Asst 2003-2007; Rep. Roscoe Bartlett: Legislative Asst 2002-2003; Rep. Ron Packard Legis. Correspondent 1999-200134 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey Scott NanceA1.9 Strategies LLCCovered position: Senate Appropriations Committee: Professional Staff 2003-2021; Rep. Steny Hoyer: Appropriations Associate 1999-2003; Departments of Treasury and Commerce: various 1990-1999.16 filingsthrough 2025
Mark Van De WaterBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz6 filingsthrough 2022
Brad GentileHill East Group, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 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: analogic-corporation.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
119th Congress
Department of Homeland Security 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: Chief of Staff: Rep. John Katko; Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director: Rep. Chris Gibson; Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant: Rep. John Boehner
5 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary HowellHill East Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. John Katko; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Ron DeSantis; Communications Director, Rep. Kay Granger; Press Secretary, Rep. Ben Quayle5 filingsthrough 2026
Erin O'Connor ElliottHill East Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Communications Director, & Counsel: Rep. John Katko5 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
