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.
Richard A AgnewVan Ness Feldman, LLP42 filingsthrough 2019
Pelham Straughn9b Group, Inc.Covered position: Policy Director, House Committee on Agriculture; Senior Policy Staff, House Committee on Agriculture; Subcommittee Staff Director, House Committee on Agriculture; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Terry Everett36 filingsthrough 2026
David White
The filings
The 20 most recent of 143 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: sonoma-county-water-agency.
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.
35 filings
$350K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
12 filings
$160K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$90K on those filings
Education
EDU
6 filings
$90K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
1 filing
$20K 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.
through 2010
S. 817111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2055111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2568114th CongressCalifornia Desert Conservation, Off-Road Recreation, and Renewable Energy Act4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1498110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1526110th CongressBay Area Regional Water Recycling Program Authorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 236110th CongressNorth Bay Water Reuse Program Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2421110th CongressClean Water Restoration Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 716110th CongressSanta Rosa Urban Water Reuse Plan Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1472110th CongressNorth Bay Water Reuse Program Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1475110th CongressBay Area Regional Water Recycling Program Authorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5303114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
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.
9b Group, Inc.
Covered position: Chief of Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA
36 filingsthrough 2026
Robert SzaboVan Ness Feldman, LLP31 filingsthrough 2016
Paul SchlesingerThorn Run Partners21 filingsthrough 2026
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Rep. Vic Fazio 1987-1993.15 filingsthrough 2014
Joseph B NelsonVan Ness Feldman, LLP13 filingsthrough 2012
Ben Lee McmakinVan Ness Feldman, LLP13 filingsthrough 2012
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: of Reclamation, DOI 1/02-9/05.11 filingsthrough 2014
James DavenportThorn Run Partners9 filingsthrough 2026
Sara TuckerSara Tucker5 filingsthrough 2015
Christina L MattarThe Ferguson Group5 filingsthrough 2011
Robert SchmidtThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Appropriations 10/1988-11/2003.1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 5 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
