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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
65 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
64 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Transportation
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 101 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 479117th CongressLOCAL Infrastructure Act8 filingsthrough 2022
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: natat-national-assn-of-towns-and-townships.
TRA
45 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
38 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
21 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
17 filings
$990K on those filings
Housing
HOU
11 filings
$680K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
9 filings
$580K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$50K 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.
113th Congress
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2013
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 501113th CongressVolunteer Responder Incentive Protection Reauthorization Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 506113th CongressVolunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 743113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2643116th CongressBroadband MAPS Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 530116th CongressAccelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1210116th CongressVolunteer Responder Incentive Protection Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 842116th CongressImproving Broadband Mapping Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2911114th CongressSmall Business Healthcare Relief Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1697114th CongressSmall Business Healthcare Relief Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 376112th CongressVolunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 20117 filingsthrough 2012
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.
13 filingsthrough 2011
Matthew W WardThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a11 filingsthrough 2011
William W (Contractor) HankaThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: 1987-89 Staff Asst. Senate Labor Committee9 filingsthrough 2014
Sarah Stockdale GuyThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a9 filingsthrough 2012
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-19936 filingsthrough 2019
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 - 5/20134 filingsthrough 2021
Stephanie MissertThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrands Buffalo Regional office, 2/2011-5/20124 filingsthrough 2019
Trent R LehmanThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Sr Leg Asst to Rep. Andrea Seastrand 94-964 filingsthrough 2013
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, 06/2010-08/20103 filingsthrough 2024
Lori PickfordThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: N/A2 filingsthrough 2019
Debra Martin BryantThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a2 filingsthrough 2012
Christina L MattarThe Ferguson Group2 filingsthrough 2008
Melissa K AvstreihThe Ferguson Group2 filingsthrough 2008
Christopher James GriffinThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Aide for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, 1/2021 - 3/2022 Legislative Aide for Chairman Murkowski, Energy & Natural Resources Committee - 6/2020-1/2021 Staff Assistant for Chairman Murkowski, Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 8/2018-6/20201 filingthrough 2024
Jeremiah Van AukenThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant - Senate Committee on Appropriations, 03/2019 - 2/20211 filingthrough 2024
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 - 2001-20081 filingthrough 2019
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/051 filingthrough 2018
Robert SchmidtThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 23 of 27 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
