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.
Thomas AlexanderSaildrone Inc.Covered position: PAD, Office of Management and Budget (Jun 2020 - Jan 2021); PDAS of Defense for Special Ops and Low-Intensity Conflict, OSD-Policy (Nov 2019 - Jun 2020); Acting ASD for Special Ops and Low-Intensity Conflict, OSD-Policy (Nov 2019 - Jun 2020)20 filingsthrough 2026
Letitia WhiteInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Appropriations Associate, Rep. Jerry Lewis
House Republican Leadership Staff17 filingsthrough 2020
Carl KimeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC17 filingsthrough 2020
Neely Marcus SilbeyInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 56 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: saildrone-inc.
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.
32 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Intelligence
INT
26 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
26 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
25 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
9 filings
$320K 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
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019
3 filingsthrough 2019
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
H.R. 7667116th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20213 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3905116th CongressIntelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3267115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5952115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1662115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3072115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 7856116th CongressIntelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 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.
15 filings
through 2020
Michael HigdonA1.9 Strategies LLCCovered position: Rep. Hal Rogers: Chief of Staff/Appropriations Associate 2011-2013, Legislative Director 2007-2011; Legislative Asst 2003-2007; Rep. Roscoe Bartlett: Legislative Asst 2002-2003; Rep. Ron Packard Legis. Correspondent 1999-200113 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey Scott NanceA1.9 Strategies LLCCovered position: Senate Appropriations Committee: Professional Staff 2003-2021; Rep. Steny Hoyer: Appropriations Associate 1999-2003; Departments of Treasury and Commerce: various 1990-1999.13 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew WombleSaildrone Inc.Covered position: PSM, Senate Appropriations Committee (Jul 2018 - Dec 2021)12 filingsthrough 2026
Shavenor WintersInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC12 filingsthrough 2020
Katie CalhounSaildrone Inc.8 filingsthrough 2024
Anne Margaret WakeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC8 filingsthrough 2019
Ross BransonSaildrone Inc.Covered position: AD, Legislated Affairs, US. Comm. Dept. (2017-218), Dep. Ass. Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Comm. Dept. (2018-2019), SVP for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, Export-Import Bank of the US (2019-2021)7 filingsthrough 2025
Jeff ChoudhryThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Director; U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Assistant / Staff Assistant; House Small Business Committee, Intern7 filingsthrough 2022
Donald KentThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Sen Ron Johnson, Chief of Staff; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Asst Sec; DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Deputy Asst Sec; U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Policy Adv; Office of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles Policy Adv.;U.S. Senator Don Nickles,Leg Asst7 filingsthrough 2022
Greg D'AngeloThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: White House Office of Management and Budget, Associate Director of Health Programs;
Senate Committee on the Budget (Sen. Gregg, Sen. Sessions, and Sen. Enzi), Professional Staff Member7 filingsthrough 2022
Hannah MorrowSaildrone Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Office of Rep. John Rutherford4 filingsthrough 2025
Matthew LeffingwellTiber Creek GroupCovered position: ​Director of Member Services Coalitions, House Appropriations Cmte.; CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Deputy CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Projects Director/Press Secretary, Rep. Mark Kirk.4 filingsthrough 2021
Alix BurnsTiber Creek Group4 filingsthrough 2021
David Frederick KilianInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC4 filingsthrough 2017
Sarah Elizabeth EreioSaildrone Inc.Covered position: RA, House Committee on Homeland Security (May 2025 - Sep 2025)3 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer ShirleyInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC3 filingsthrough 2018
Kali MatalonInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Committee
State Staff, Senator Jim Webb3 filingsthrough 2017
Hamilton BloomVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Minority Staff Director/Clerk, Majority Staff Director/Clerk, Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, & Related Agencies; Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Shelby2 filingsthrough 2026
John Michael GonzalezTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Chris Bell; Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean.2 filingsthrough 2021
Erynn D HookInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff / LD / LC / Staff Assistant, Rep. Chris Collins.2 filingsthrough 2020
Rashid HallawayVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh1 filingthrough 2026
Benjamin E. QuayleVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2026
Don NicklesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 20 of 28 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
