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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
30 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 530116th CongressAccelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
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.
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: broward-county-fl.
fees reported
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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.
AVI
18 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
18 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
12 filings
$770K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$700K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
11 filings
$700K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
5 filings
$280K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
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.
14 filings
through 2013
Ronald K HammThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a8 filingsthrough 2011
Amanda WoodThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Office of Sen Bob Graham, Legislative Director8 filingsthrough 2010
WILLIAM FERGUSON jrThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a8 filingsthrough 2010
Guneev SharmaThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Legislative Corespondent: Sen. Heitkamp;7 filingsthrough 2020
Paul BeaThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Rep. Edward Patten, 72-785 filingsthrough 2013
James David NicholsThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a3 filingsthrough 2008
Carmen OjedaThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Intern, Rep. Rick Larsen1 filingthrough 2025
Mary Scott HardwickThorn Run Partners1 filingthrough 2019
James DavenportThorn Run Partners1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 11 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
