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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
55 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations and Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-1993.47 filingsthrough 2026
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0545 filingsthrough 2024
Charmayne AndersonThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for House Committee on Government Operations, Subcommittee on Information, Justice, Transportation and Agriculture 199344 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary Israel
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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: oceanside-ca-city-of.
NAT
46 filings
$942K on those filings
Housing
HOU
46 filings
$942K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
46 filings
$942K on those filings
Veterans
VET
40 filings
$822K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
24 filings
$480K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
15 filings
$300K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
12 filings
$240K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
8 filings
$160K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
5 filings
$100K 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.
112th Congress
Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012
H.R. 607112th CongressBroadband for First Responders Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1040112th CongressBroadband for First Responders Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 28112th CongressPublic Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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: 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, 06/2010-08/2010
16 filingsthrough 2024
Ann DurandThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: N/A7 filingsthrough 2026
Robert SchmidtThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Appropriations 10/1988-11/2003.4 filingsthrough 2010
John Fitzgerald GaineThe Ferguson Group1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
