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
70 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
59 filings
$915K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 61 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act7 filingsthrough 2022
Zachary IsraelThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, 05/2009-07/2009; 01/2010 Intern for former U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy, 09/2009-04/2010 Intern for former U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, 06/2010-08/201036 filingsthrough 2024
Stephanie MissertThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrands Buffalo Regional office, 2/2011-5/2012.33 filingsthrough 2022
Christopher James GriffinThe Ferguson Group
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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: butte-county-ca.
50 filings
$780K on those filings
Insurance
INS
36 filings
$440K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
27 filings
$455K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 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
Securing Access for the central Valley and Enhancing (SAVE) Water Resources Act
7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3167116th CongressNational Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 830116th CongressFlood Insurance for Farmers Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1877118th CongressContinue VET TEC Authorization Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4136118th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations.6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6076116th CongressIRS Enhancement and Tax Gap Reduction Act of 20204 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 8812118th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4550117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7776117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7865117th CongressFlood Insurance for Farmers Act of 20223 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Covered position: Legislative Aide for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, 1/2021 - 3/2022 Legislative Aide for Chairman Murkowski, Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 6/2020-1/2021 Staff Assistant for Chairman Murkowski, Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 8/2018-6/2020
14 filingsthrough 2026
Jeremiah Van AukenThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant - Senate Committee on Appropriations, 03/2019 - 2/20219 filingsthrough 2026
Karl KalbacherThe Ferguson Group5 filingsthrough 2016
Kareem D MurphyThe Ferguson Group3 filingsthrough 2009
