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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Natural Resources
NAT
74 filings
$840K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
27 filings
$270K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 934113th CongressTo amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act related to a segment of the Lower Merced River in California, and for other purposes.15 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 530116th CongressAccelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: !Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7 /07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0541 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher B. KearneyThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Professional Staff - House Resources Committee - 1991-1997 House Budget Committee - 1997-2001 ProfessionalStaff - Senate Energy and Natural Resources - 2014-2017Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy - DOI - 2001-200835 filingsthrough 2026
JOSEPH L RAEDER srThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Rep. Tony Coelho, 12/1987- 8/1989.35 filingsthrough 2019
David R. Hoover
The filings
The 20 most recent of 97 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: merced-irrigation-district.
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.
17 filings
$110K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$150K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
5 filings
$210K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$10K 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.
116th Congress
STREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act
9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2012116th CongressRestoring Local Control Over Public Infrastructure Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2563115th CongressWater Supply Infrastructure and Drought Resilience Act of 20188 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2578112th CongressConservation and Economic Growth Act8 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2772116th CongressInvesting in Our Communities Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 869112th CongressTo clarify the definition of flood control operations for the purposes of the operation and maintenance of Project No. 2179 on the Lower Merced River.7 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 8115th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3964113th CongressSacramento-San Joaquin Valley Emergency Water Delivery Act4 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.
The Ferguson Group
Covered position: N/A
33 filingsthrough 2026
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee onAppropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-199332 filingsthrough 2026
Michael N MccartyStone Mattheis Xenopoulos and Brew, PC16 filingsthrough 2014
Aindriu ColganThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant - Rep. Joe Walsh (IL-08) 2011-2012 Legislative Director - Rep. Kevin Brady (TX-08) 2012-201611 filingsthrough 2020
Lori PickfordThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: N/A10 filingsthrough 2019
Michael N MccartyHolland & Knight LLP8 filingsthrough 2016
Jeffrey DenhamDentons US LLPCovered position: Former Member of the House of Representatives6 filingsthrough 2026
Jordan CooperDentons US LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation6 filingsthrough 2026
Earl H. StockdaleThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2021
Christina L MattarThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a6 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 11 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
