Friant Water Authority (Formerly Friant… — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Friant Water Authority (Formerly Friant Water Users Authority)
California
67 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2025 · latest filed Oct 17, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$2.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.7M
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.
Natural Resources
NAT
67 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
55 filings
$2.1M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 76 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 357116th CongressSacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area Act11 filingsthrough 2020
S. 316116th CongressSacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area Act11 filingsthrough 2020
JOSEPH L RAEDER srThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Rep. Tony Coelho 1987-198944 filingsthrough 2019
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0528 filingsthrough 2025
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, 06/2010-08/201024 filingsthrough 2025
Lane H. DicksonThe Ferguson Group
The filings
The 20 most recent of 67 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: friant-water-authority-formerly-friant-water-users-authority.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
Reclamation Title Transfer and Non-Federal Infrastructure Incentivization Act
10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2117th CongressReserved for the Speaker.8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2560115th CongressReclamation Title Transfer Act of 20188 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2563115th CongressWater Supply Infrastructure and Drought Resilience Act of 20188 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2898114th CongressWestern Water and American Food Security Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 23115th CongressGaining Responsibility on Water Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2473116th CongressSecuring Access for the central Valley and Enhancing (SAVE) Water Resources Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2044116th CongressWater Supply Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Utilization Act4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3422116th CongressGreat American Outdoors Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3961115th CongressKissimmee River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20194 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.
Covered 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
21 filingsthrough 2025
Christopher B. KearneyThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Energy and Natural Resources.2014-2017; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, 2001-2008;Professional Staff, House Resources Committee, 1991-1997;Served House Budget Committee from 1997-200120 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 5 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
