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
31 filings
$610K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
31 filings
$610K 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.
H.R. 3052116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.10 filingsthrough 2020
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-199342 filingsthrough 2026
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0541 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher B. KearneyThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Professional Staff - House Resources Committee - 1991-1997 House Budget Committee - 1997-2001 Professional Staff - Senate Energy and Natural Resources - 2014-2017 Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy - DOI - 2001-200841 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 31 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: sutter-mutual-water-company-and-reclamation-district-1500.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020
10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2960116th CongressMaking 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. 2580117th CongressAlexander Lofgren Veterans in Parks (VIP) Act2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 1162116th CongressWater Recycling Investment and Improvement Act2 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2470116th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20202 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 1162115th CongressNo Hero Left Untreated Act1 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 1435115th CongressExchange Inclusion for a Healthy America Act of 20171 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.
George Michael MillerThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Counsel, Office of Rep. Robert Matsui, 2/1991-10/1994 Leg Correspondent, 9/1986-6/1987 and 5/1985-12/1985
41 filingsthrough 2026
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 SENATE26 filingsthrough 2026
Stephanie MissertThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrands Buffalo Regional office, 2/2011-5/201226 filingsthrough 2022
JOSEPH L RAEDER srThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Cal Dooley, 2/1991-3/1994 Legislative Assistant for Rep. Tony Coelho, 12/1987-8/198915 filingsthrough 2022
Lori PickfordThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: No covered official position.7 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 8 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
