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.
Aerospace
AER
20 filings
$270K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$330K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6069118th CongressCombatting the Persecution of Religious Groups in China Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5666116th CongressNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 20204 filingsthrough 2020
Letitia WhiteInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Jerry Lewis / Associate Staff, House Appropriations Committee / Leadership Staff, House Republican Conference.25 filingsthrough 2026
Carl KimeInnovative Federal Strategies, LLC22 filingsthrough 2024
Taylor JordanInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, NOAA / Professional Staff Member, House Science, Space, and Technology Committee15 filingsthrough 2024
Erynn D HookInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff/Leg.Dir./Leg.Asst./Office Manager/Staff Asst., Rep. Chris Collins
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: xplore-inc.
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
5 filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
1 filing
$30K 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
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7667116th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20214 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20214 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4505117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8256117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4664117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3042117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 3766116th CongressOne Small Step to Protect Human Heritage in Space Act1 filingthrough 2020
S. 1694116th CongressOne Small Step to Protect Human Heritage in Space Act1 filingthrough 2020
S. 2800116th CongressNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 20201 filingthrough 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.
6 filingsthrough 2021
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 Harris3 filingsthrough 2026
Mackenzie RoweInnovative Federal Strategies, LLCCovered position: Intern, Sen. Angus King1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
