35 filings from 2 registrants · 2014–2023 · latest filed Feb 5, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$320K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$320K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
33 filings
$320K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
27 filings
$240K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2044116th CongressWater Supply Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Utilization Act8 filingsthrough 2020
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: columbia-basin-development-league.
26 filings
$230K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$110K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
2 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
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4891116th CongressWestern Water Security Act of 20205 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2718116th CongressWestern Water Security Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3021115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20184 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.
John CrottyWater Strategies, LLC
6 filingsthrough 2018
Valentina Josefa ValentaWater Strategies, LLC5 filingsthrough 2016
