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
38 filings
$610K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
37 filings
$600K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 40 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20214 filingsthrough 2020
Letitia WhiteInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC40 filingsthrough 2026
Carl KimeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC40 filingsthrough 2026
Erynn D HookInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff/Leg Dir/Leg Asst/Office Manager/Staff Asst, Rep. Chris Collins26 filingsthrough 2026
Mackenzie RoweInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC11 filingsthrough 2020
Anne Margaret WakeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: galois.
7 filings
$70K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
3 filings
$60K 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.
116th Congress
Endless Frontier Act
4 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, 20214 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3832116th CongressEndless Frontier Act4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20214 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20184 filingsthrough 2018
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
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.
9 filingsthrough 2019
Shavenor WintersInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC6 filingsthrough 2019
Jennifer ShirleyInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC3 filingsthrough 2018
Kali MatalonInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC3 filingsthrough 2017
Anne LordInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Ben Sasse2 filingsthrough 2022
Jason Samuel SwinsonInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Intern. Reps. Mike Rogers, Jerry Carl, Barry Moore, and Robert Aderholt1 filingthrough 2025
Neely Marcus SilbeyInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2018
David Frederick KilianInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 4 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
