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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
43 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
43 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 53 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 530116th CongressAccelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 201911 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4136118th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations.9 filingsthrough 2024
Lori PickfordThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: No covered official position.19 filingsthrough 2019
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 3/2017-3/202118 filingsthrough 2026
Kristi MoreThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: No covered position18 filingsthrough 2024
Christopher B. KearneyThe Ferguson Group
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: modesto-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.
29 filings
$830K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$790K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$490K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
8 filings
$250K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
1 filing
$15K 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
Securing Access for the central Valley and Enhancing (SAVE) Water Resources Act
9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1699116th CongressSTREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2012116th CongressRestoring Local Control Over Public Infrastructure Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2044116th CongressWater Supply Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Utilization Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3043115th CongressHydropower Policy Modernization Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1460115th CongressEnergy and Natural Resources Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2800115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3266115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20184 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1609115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 7776117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20233 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Covered 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 - 2001-2008
18 filingsthrough 2019
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0516 filingsthrough 2022
JOSEPH L RAEDER srThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Cal Dooley, 2/1991 - 3/1994 Legislative Assistant for Rep. Tony Coelho, 12/1987-8/198913 filingsthrough 2019
David R. HooverThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: No covered official position.11 filingsthrough 2020
Aindriu ColganThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant - Rep. Joe Walsh (IL-08) 2011-2012 Legislative Director - Rep. Kevin Brady (TX-08) 2012-201610 filingsthrough 2020
Brian Edward RellBalch & Bingham, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff - Congressman Robert Aderholt6 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey DenhamDentons US LLPCovered position: Former Member of the House of Representatives2 filingsthrough 2026
Jordan CooperDentons US LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 11 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
