Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Incident Catering Services D/B/A Ellipse Global (Formerly Ellipse Group)
Washington
15 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2020 · latest filed Oct 20, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$220K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$220K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Small Business
SMB
12 filings
$210K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$100K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- S. 2580 116th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20204 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Thomas Allen Hawks Monument AdvocacyCovered position: Minority Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Aide, U.S. Senator Thad Cochran.14 filingsthrough 2020
- Kathryn Christensen Mills Monument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Director of Congressional Relations, Deputy Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement; Senior Legislative Counsel, Rep. Zoe Lofgren.7 filingsthrough 2018
- CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jr Monument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security; Consultant, Department of Homeland Security; General Counsel, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles; Counsel, Senate Committee on the Judiciary.7 filings
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: incident-catering-services-d-b-a-ellipse-global-formerly-ellipse-group.