Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Somach Simmons & Dunn on Behalf of State of Texas
California
60 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2023 · latest filed Dec 6, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$910K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$910K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Natural Resources
NAT
60 filings
$910K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
35 filings
$870K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Mark Limbaugh The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0556 filingsthrough 2023
- William Roger Gwinn The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations45 filingsthrough 2020
- Kristi More The Ferguson Group29 filingsthrough 2020
- Stephanie Missert The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Buffalo, NY 2/2011-5/2012.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 60 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: somach-simmons-dunn-on-behalf-of-state-of-texas.