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.
Natural Resources
NAT
70 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
64 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 89 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 2563116th CongressILLICIT CASH Act10 filingsthrough 2020
S. 47116th CongressJohn D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act10 filingsthrough 2020
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0573 filingsthrough 2026
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, 06/2010-08/201044 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher B. KearneyThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Professional Staff - House Resources Committee - 1991-1997 House Budget Committee - 1997-2001 Professional Staff - Senate Energy and Natural Resources - 2014-2017 Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy - DOI - 2001-200844 filingsthrough 2026
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: family-farm-alliance.
CAW
62 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
61 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
60 filings
$1.6M 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.
117th Congress
Reserved for the Speaker.
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1932117th CongressNo Vaccine Passports Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1570116th CongressAquifer Recharge Flexibility Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2044116th CongressWater Supply Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Utilization Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 594114th CongressWaters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 897114th CongressZika Vector Control Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 133114th CongressKlamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 384114th CongressWater and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 935113th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20148 filingsthrough 2014
S. 175113th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to improve the use of certain registered pesticides.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2647114th CongressEmergency Wildfire and Forest Management Act of 20167 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
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.
JOSEPH L RAEDER srThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Cal Dooley, 2/1991-3/1994 Legislative Assistant for Rep. Tony Coelho, 12/1987-8/1989
43 filingsthrough 2019
Stephanie MissertThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Buffalo, NY 2/2011-5/201222 filingsthrough 2019
Lane H. DicksonThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Clerk, House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Water & Power, 5/2005-1/2007; Special Assist. Bureau of Reclamation, 2/2007-12/2007; Sr. Professional Staff Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee 3/2017-3/2021; NOT LOBBYING SENATE20 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
