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
64 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
63 filings
$1.5M 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 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2117th CongressReserved for the Speaker.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1093114th CongressClean Water Compliance and Ratepayer Affordability Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0572 filingsthrough 2026
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-199349 filingsthrough 2024
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, 06/2010-08/201040 filingsthrough 2026
Stephanie Missert
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: hamilton-county.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Clean Water Compliance and Ratepayer Affordability Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2118th CongressSecure the Border Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2358114th CongressClean Water Compliance and Affordability Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 465115th CongressWater Quality Improvement Act of 20174 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. 2800115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3073115th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 692115th CongressWater Infrastructure Flexibility Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5303114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2848114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3021115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20182 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: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrands Buffalo Regional office, 2/2011-5/2012
25 filingsthrough 2022
WILLIAM FERGUSON jrThe Ferguson Group10 filingsthrough 2014
Courtney MillerThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Professional Staff Member and Policy Advisor, Committee on Oversight and Accountability: Legislative Director: Office of Representative Shontel M. Brown: Direct Lobbying Restrictions from June 17, 2023-June 17, 20249 filingsthrough 2026
Christina L MattarThe Ferguson Group3 filingsthrough 2011
Kareem D MurphyThe Ferguson Group1 filingthrough 2008
Ronald K HammThe Ferguson Group1 filingthrough 2008
Robert SchmidtThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Staff Asst. at House Committee on Appropriations 10/88-11/031 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
