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.
Kathryn RuffaloRuffalo and Associates, LLC36 filingsthrough 2018
Colin T HayesLot Sixteen LLCCovered position: Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources; Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Craig Thomas30 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer StoripanLot Sixteen LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Office of U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty; Staff Assistant, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations; Staff Assistant, Office of Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski24 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 196 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: national-association-of-water-companies.
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.
ENV
49 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
9 filings
$1M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
8 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
7 filings
$808K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
5 filings
$495K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
4 filings
$480K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$120K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
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.
115th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
10 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1961113th CongressChemical Safety and Drinking Water Protection Act of 201410 filingsthrough 2014
S. 939112th CongressSustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 201110 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1262111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3009115th CongressSustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 8115th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20188 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4237113th CongressSustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 6194110th CongressSustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 20086 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2942116th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain contributions by government entities are treated as contributions to capital.5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4849111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
James GouldJim Gould Strategies LLC23 filingsthrough 2022
Petra SmeltzerNational Association of Water CompaniesCovered position: Director of Government Relations23 filingsthrough 2016
Joseph EavesLot Sixteen LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Paul Tonko21 filingsthrough 2024
Michael MchughUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Gordon Smith9 filingsthrough 2012
Sandra SwirskiUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel to Sen. Al Simpson9 filingsthrough 2012
Tucker ShumackGds Strategies LLCCovered position: Tax & Finance Counsel, Sen. Cmte.on Small BusinessLA, Sen. Johnny Isakson; LA, Sen. Paul Coverdell6 filingsthrough 2013
James GouldGds Strategies LLC6 filingsthrough 2013
Louis JennyNational Association of Water Companies6 filingsthrough 2010
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates6 filingsthrough 2009
