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: watereuse.
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.
NAT
41 filings
$906K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
32 filings
$686K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
32 filings
$686K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$536K 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.
115th Congress
America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018
7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2940119th CongressAdvancing Water Reuse Act4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4506119th CongressAdvancing Water Reuse Act1 filingthrough 2026
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.
3 filingsthrough 2025
Aharon FriedmanFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means3 filingsthrough 2025
Mia O'ConnellWatereuse AssociationCovered position: External lobbyist2 filingsthrough 2018
Mark LimbaughWatereuse AssociationCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 and Deputy Commissioner for Bureau of Reclamation DOI 1/02-9/05.1 filingthrough 2015
W Roger GwinnWatereuse AssociationCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations and Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987-1993.1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
