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
54 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
54 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2952115th CongressFoster Youth Mentoring Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
Zachary IsraelThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for US Senator Robert Mendez 05/2009 - 07/2009 and 01/2010; Intern for former US Rep. Scott Murphy 09/2009 - 04/2010; Intern for former US Rep Rush Holt, 06/2010 - 08-201046 filingsthrough 2026
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations; Legislative Director for Vic Fazio 1987 -199346 filingsthrough 2026
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0545 filingsthrough 2022
WILLIAM FERGUSON jr
The filings
The 20 most recent of 54 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: city-of-fort-wayne-in.
48 filings
$957K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
48 filings
$957K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
36 filings
$717K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Housing
HOU
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
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.
115th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
4 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, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 8115th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3023115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3073115th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3158115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
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. 3163116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3167116th CongressNational Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1276116th CongressFlood Mapping Modernization and Homeowner Empowerment Pilot Program Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2520116th CongressAn original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2580116th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20202 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3021115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20181 filingthrough 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.
The Ferguson Group
Covered position: n/a
28 filingsthrough 2018
Jeremiah Van AukenThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant - Senate Committee on Appropriations, 03/2019 - 2/20219 filingsthrough 2026
Kaj GumbsThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Fellow, Rep. G.K. Butterfield, 05/2019-08/2019 Covered Positions: House Energy and Commerce Committee Constituent Services and Community Outreach Representative, Rep. G.K. Butterfield. 08/2019-08/20208 filingsthrough 2024
