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
35 filings
$690K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
33 filings
$650K on those filings
Government Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 40 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 23115th CongressGaining Responsibility on Water Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 8998118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
Letitia WhiteInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Jerry Lewis / PSM, House Appropriations Committee / Republican Leadership Staff38 filingsthrough 2026
Jean DentonInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Staff, Rep. William Lowery38 filingsthrough 2026
William TatumInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Mgr. Docs and Reqs, Office of the Clerk; Director of Admin., Sen. Luther Strange; Dir. of Info Tech, Sen. Rules Committee; Sys Admin and Cor Cord., Sen. Jeff Sessions21 filingsthrough 2023
Susan Paxon
The filings
The 20 most recent of 35 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: valley-sanitary-district.
GOV
15 filings
$300K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$20K 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.
117th Congress
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
3 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4945117th CongressTo amend the Small Business Act to establish a growth accelerator fund competition, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8262117th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2605117th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
S. 4231117th CongressSTREAM Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2960116th CongressMaking appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3052116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3266115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6147115th CongressInterior, Environment, Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1609115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2975115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3073115th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Innovative Federal Strategies, LLC
Covered position: Intern, Sen. Roger Wicker and Speaker Nancy Pelosi
11 filingsthrough 2026
Shavenor WintersInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC11 filingsthrough 2020
Sarah PersichettiInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC3 filingsthrough 2021
Anne Margaret WakeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC3 filingsthrough 2017
Zackary LinickInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Rep. Henry Cuellar (LD, LA), Hosue Ethics Committee (Staff Assistant)1 filingthrough 2022
Christian RodrickInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 5 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
