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.
Agriculture
AGR
27 filings
$146K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
25 filings
$146K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act3 filingsthrough 2020
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: reclamation-district-1500-fka-sutter-mutual-water-company.
RES
12 filings
$20K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$68K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$36K 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.
118th Congress
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
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.
Best Best & Krieger LLP
5 filingsthrough 2020
Samantha SabolBest Best & Krieger LLPCovered position: Rep. David Schweikert - Sr. Leg. Assistant, Leg Assistant, Leg. Aide, Leg. Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Intern (1/2017-7/2022)3 filingsthrough 2023
Michael BrainBest Best & Krieger LLPCovered position: Interior Dept: Prin. Dep Asst Secy Water & Sci(7/23-1/25),Bur Reclm. Depty Commis (3/22-7/23); House: Appr Subcm Energy & Water Dev. Prf. Staff (1/19-1/22), Transp & Infra., Subcm Water Resc & Env-Counsel(1/15-1/19;5/07-7/10);Rep. Johnson(3/14-1/19)2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 3 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
