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
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.Con.Res. 14119th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.2 filingsthrough 2025
Letitia WhiteInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant/Appropriations Associate, Rep. Jerry Lewis / House Republican Leadership Staff10 filingsthrough 2026
Carl KimeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC10 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin JarrettInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Special Assistant for Outreach, Appalachian Regional Commission / MLA, Rep. John Carter / Staff Assistant, Rep. Aaron Shock5 filingsthrough 2026
Austin GageInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Asst. to Rep. Hal Rogers, House Appropriations Committee; Legislative Director/Counsel/Senior Leg. Assistant, Rep. Hal Rogers; LC/Staff Assistant, Rep. Andy Harris
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: research-and-education-coalition-for-ocean-sciences.
2 filings
$100K 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
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2354119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 8845119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 9495119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 4784119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 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.
5 filingsthrough 2026
Juan Buhigas PalinkasevInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. Henry Cuellar5 filingsthrough 2026
Taylor JordanInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor, NOAA; Professional Staff Member, House Science Committee5 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
