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
26 filings
$50K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
26 filings
$50K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1932116th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat as compensation for purposes of retirement contribution limitations any difficulty of care payments excluded from gross income.3 filingsthrough 2019
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 and Deputy Commissioner for Bureau of Reclamation DOI 1/02-9/0527 filingsthrough 2024
Christopher B. KearneyThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Energy and Natural Resources. 2014-2017; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, 2001-2008; Professional Staff, House Resources Committee, 1991-1997; Served House Budget Committee from 1997-200127 filingsthrough 2024
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations; Legislative Director for Vic Fazio 1987 -199327 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 34 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: river-garden-farms-ca.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
3 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2470116th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20202 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
S. 2975115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
S. 3021115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
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.
Stephanie MissertThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Buffalo, NY, 2/2011- 5/2012
20 filingsthrough 2022
Lane H. DicksonThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Clerk, House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Water & Power, 5/2005-1/2007; Special Assist. Bureau of Reclamation, 2/2007-12/2007; Sr. Professional Staff Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee 3/2017-3/2021; NOT LOBBYING SENATE13 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 5 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
