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-luis-delta-mendota-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
11 filings
$370K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$550K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
8 filings
$230K 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
WIIN Act
1 filingthrough 2016
H.R. 1837113th CongressClean Water Protection Act1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 2609113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
S. 1245113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
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:
27 filingsthrough 2022
William BallFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Sen. Susan Collins, 2010-2015; House Committee on Natural Resources, 2015-202016 filingsthrough 2023
Katie SchoettlerFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Communications Director & Senior Advisor - U.S. Senator Steve Daines; Press Secretary - House Committee on Natural Resources14 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph FindaroAkerman LLP11 filingsthrough 2013
John StromFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel - U.S. House Cmte on Energy & Commerce; Counsel - U.S. Senate Cmte on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Associate General Counsel - U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services; Senior Counsel - U.S. House Cmte on Natural Resources7 filingsthrough 2026
