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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
32 filings
$600K on those filings
Defense
DEF
25 filings
$480K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20245 filingsthrough 2024
Carl KimeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC38 filingsthrough 2026
Letitia WhiteInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC31 filingsthrough 2026
Zackary LinickInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Henry Cuellar21 filingsthrough 2023
Jason Samuel SwinsonInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Intern. Reps. Mike Rogers, Jerry Carl, Barry Moore, andRobert Aderholt9 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 33 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: emagin.
9 filings
$150K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$30K 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
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026
4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20244 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20244 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20213 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2474116th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2019
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Anne Margaret WakeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC
9 filingsthrough 2019
Neely Marcus SilbeyInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC8 filingsthrough 2019
Shavenor WintersInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC7 filingsthrough 2019
Jennifer ShirleyInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC3 filingsthrough 2018
David Frederick KilianInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 2 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
