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.
Natural Resources
NAT
69 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
67 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 149 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.J.Res. 44115th CongressDisapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior relating to Bureau of Land Management regulations that establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend land use plans pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.12 filingsthrough 2018
H.J.Res. 60115th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to the use of compensatory mitigation as recommended or required under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.12 filingsthrough 2018
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kris David PollyWater Strategies, LLC63 filingsthrough 2026
Ian LyleWater Strategies, LLC46 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: national-water-resources-association.
$85K
fees reported · also reported as expenses
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
59 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
57 filings
$5.9M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
40 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
36 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
33 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
30 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
30 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
25 filings
$3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
11 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$600K 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.
H.R. 935115th CongressCyber Security Education and Federal Workforce Enhancement Act
12 filingsthrough 2018
S. 340115th CongressSensible Environmental Protection Act of 201712 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1107114th CongressBureau of Reclamation Transparency Act11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1667114th Congress21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 594114th CongressWaters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 897114th CongressZika Vector Control Act11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 112114th CongressCommon Sense in Species Protection Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S. 292114th Congress21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 593114th CongressBureau of Reclamation Transparency Act11 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Thomas F DonnellyNational Water Resources Association
