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.
Christian KierigKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Sen. Feinstein (1995-2001) - Legislative Assistant69 filingsthrough 2026
Mark KadeshKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. Harman (1995-1997) - Chief of Staff; Sen. Feinstein (1998-2007) - Legislative Director & Chief of Staff69 filingsthrough 2026
Brad Lee HiltscherMetropolitan Water District of Southern California48 filingsthrough 2020
Dave Kirk RameyKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. Ken Calvert (1993 - October 2016) - Chief of Staff
The filings
The 20 most recent of 221 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: metropolitan-water-district-of-southern-california.
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.
CAW
64 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
56 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
49 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
22 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
17 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
15 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$566K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
1 filing
$230K 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
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.
S. 414114th CongressCalifornia Desert Conservation and Recreation Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20149 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.
39 filingsthrough 2026
Sean A. TaylorVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Judd Gregg (2001-2002); Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Connie Mack (2000-2001)34 filingsthrough 2024
Abby SchneiderMetropolitan Water District of Southern California26 filingsthrough 2026
Ben MillerKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. George Miller (2003-2012) - Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff; Rep. Huffman (2013-2020) - Chief of Staff22 filingsthrough 2026
Mary Lee McguireMary Lee Mcguire10 filingsthrough 2010
Morgan LeonardMetropolitan Water District of Southern CaliforniaCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA)6 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin Craig NobleTroutman Strategies6 filingsthrough 2009
Tom TiltonTroutman StrategiesCovered position: LA Rep. Betty Sutton4 filingsthrough 2012
Lindsay Jordan AustinTroutman StrategiesCovered position: LA Rep. Lynn Westmoreland4 filingsthrough 2012
Gary EllsworthGary Ellsworth4 filingsthrough 2008
James C BarkerBarker Leavitt, PLLC (Ska Mr. James C. Barker)4 filingsthrough 2008
David GwaltneyCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff, Senate House Appropriations4 filingsthrough 2008
Nicholas CrockettBarker Leavitt, PLLC (Ska Mr. James C. Barker)3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 10 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
