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
$1.9M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
70 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1162116th CongressWater Recycling Investment and Improvement Act12 filingsthrough 2020
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0583 filingsthrough 2026
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-199383 filingsthrough 2026
JOSEPH L RAEDER srThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Cal Dooley, 2/1991-3/1994 and Legislative Assistant for Rep. Tony Coelho, 12/1987- 8/1989.58 filingsthrough 2022
Christopher B. Kearney
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: glenn-colusa-irrigation-district-ca.
15 filings
$510K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
5 filings
$150K 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
Sacramento Valley Water Storage and Restoration Act
9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 434115th CongressNew WATER Act9 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1060114th CongressSacramento Valley Water Storage and Restoration Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2898114th CongressWestern Water and American Food Security Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1894114th CongressCalifornia Emergency Drought Relief Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 23115th CongressGaining Responsibility on Water Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2960116th CongressMaking appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 8115th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20183 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.
The Ferguson Group
Covered position: DID NOT LOBBY SENATE 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 - 2001-2008
47 filingsthrough 2026
George Michael MillerThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Counsel, Office of Rep. Robert Matsui, 2/1991-10/1994 Leg Correspondent, 9/1986-6/1987 and 5/1985-12/198547 filingsthrough 2026
Stephanie MissertThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Buffalo, NY 2/2011-5/2012.41 filingsthrough 2022
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 SENATE26 filingsthrough 2026
Robert SchmidtThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Appropriations 10/1988-11/2003.15 filingsthrough 2012
Lori PickfordThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: N/A14 filingsthrough 2020
Christina L MattarThe Ferguson Group13 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
