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
19 filings
$192K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
19 filings
$192K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8255118th CongressTo establish a minimum public comment period with respect to proposed rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission.5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8262118th CongressNew Mexico Land Grant-Mercedes Historical or Traditional Use Cooperation and Coordination Act5 filingsthrough 2024
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-199321 filingsthrough 2026
Jeremiah Van AukenThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant - Senate Committee on Appropriations, 03/2019 - 2/20219 filingsthrough 2026
Stephanie MissertThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrands Buffalo Regional office, 2/2011-5/20126 filingsthrough 2022
Joonsoo YiThe Ferguson Group
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 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: ward-smith-on-behalf-of-brunswick-county-nc.
ENV
19 filings
$192K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
17 filings
$172K 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.
118th Congress
Rural Healthcare Revitalization Act of 2024
5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4660118th CongressNo Bias in the Baseline Act5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4670118th CongressEmployer-Directed Skills Act5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4686118th CongressTransparency in Student Lending Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8255117th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8262117th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8294117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4660117th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4670117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4686117th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
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: Staffer for Rep. Katie Porter, 07/2020 - 08/2022 Intern for Rep. Harley Rouda, 08/2019 - 12/2019
4 filingsthrough 2023
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 3/2017-3/20213 filingsthrough 2023
Ann DurandThe Ferguson Group1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
