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
27 filings
$205K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$205K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 434115th CongressNew WATER Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-199351 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher CumminsThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: N/A9 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher B. KearneyThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: 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 - 2001-20089 filingsthrough 2024
Amanda Wood
The filings
The 20 most recent of 62 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: midpeninsula-regional-open-space-district.
20 filings
$220K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
20 filings
$220K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
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
Water Resources Development Act of 2018
3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2975115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 434116th CongressEmancipation National Historic Trail Study Act2 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5895116th CongressLeave No Americans Behind Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 8116th CongressBipartisan Background Checks Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2975116th CongressStop the Spread of Invasive Mussels Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
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: 4/1998-1/2005.
9 filingsthrough 2013
Richard Lee AndersonThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Secretary of the Navy, 11/1987-7/1988.9 filingsthrough 2009
Rebecca BlissThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrands D.C. Office, 1/2014 - 4/2014 Intern for Rep. Nita Loweys White Plains Office, 1/2013 - 5/20136 filingsthrough 2022
Robert SchmidtThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Appropriations 10/1988-11/2003.4 filingsthrough 2012
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 and Deputy Commissioner for Bureau of Reclamation DOI 1/02-9/051 filingthrough 2018
Stephanie MissertThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kristen Gillibrand in Buffalo, NY, 2/2011-5/20121 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
