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
70 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
66 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 75 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2014
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: florida-institute-for-human-and-machine-cognition.
13 filings
$190K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
6 filings
$100K on those filings
Veterans
VET
4 filings
$50K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
1 filing
$10K 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.
112th Congress
GRANT Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4543117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20233 filingsthrough 2022
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: Legislative Director, Rep. Henry Cuellar
19 filingsthrough 2023
Neely Marcus SilbeyInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC15 filingsthrough 2020
Stacy LadwigInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Erik Paulsen15 filingsthrough 2015
Benjamin JarrettInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Special Assistant for Outreach, Appalachian Regional Commission / MLA, Rep. John Carter / Staff Asst., Rep. Aaron Shock12 filingsthrough 2023
Jessica EggimannInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC12 filingsthrough 2011
Anne Margaret WakeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC9 filingsthrough 2019
Kali MatalonInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member / Staff Assistant, Senate Appropriations Committee8 filingsthrough 2017
Peter EngelInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Intern, Sen. Tina Smith.7 filingsthrough 2025
Mackenzie RoweInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC6 filingsthrough 2020
Shavenor WintersInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC6 filingsthrough 2019
Juan Buhigas PalinkasevInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. Henry Cuellar4 filingsthrough 2026
