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.
Greg SchildwachterWatershed Results LLCCovered position: Executive Office of the President (CEQ Assoc Dir); US Senate (EPW, Subcmte staff director; Sen Crapo, advisor).9 filingsthrough 2026
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: pheasants-forever-inc.
fees reported
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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.
11 filings
$950K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
4 filings
$270K 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.
114th Congress
Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.
3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2642114th CongressCommunity Lender Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 7567119th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20261 filingthrough 2026
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: Policy Director Senate Agriculture Committee; Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary, USDA
4 filingsthrough 2015
Pelham Straughn9b Group, Inc.Covered position: Policy Director, House Committee on Agriculture4 filingsthrough 2015
John BeallPheasants Forever, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
