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.
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: san-diego-county-water-authority.
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.
CAW
45 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
32 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$580K 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.
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.
Carpi & Clay, Inc
Covered position: LA to Rep Robert Matsui
20 filingsthrough 2020
Dennis Alan CardozaFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Member of Congress, 2003-201217 filingsthrough 2024
Jennifer Fitzgerald WalshFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: AA; Deputy COS, COS: Rep. Dennis Cardoza; Field Representative: Rep. Vic Fazio; Staff Asst, Program Dir, EA: House Democratic Caucus17 filingsthrough 2024
Laura Morgan-KesslerCarpi & Clay, Inc14 filingsthrough 2021
Eric Lewis SwedlundCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: LD to Rep. Stephen Horn13 filingsthrough 2018
William BallFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Sen. Susan Collins, 2010-2015; House Committee on Natural Resources, 2015-202011 filingsthrough 2023
Katie SchoettlerFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Communications Director & Senior Advisor - U.S. Senator Steve Daines; Press Secretary - House Committee on Natural Resources9 filingsthrough 2024
