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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Natural Resources
NAT
85 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
80 filings
$2M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 594114th CongressWaters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0569 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 - 2001-200827 filingsthrough 2026
David KennettCapitol Alliance Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director to Rep. Ken Calvert18 filingsthrough 2016
David Kennett
The filings
The 20 most recent of 86 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: western-municipal-water-district.
fees reported
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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.
CAW
60 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
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.
115th Congress
Water Supply Infrastructure and Drought Resilience Act of 2018
3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2898114th CongressWestern Water and American Food Security Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2533114th CongressCalifornia Long-Term Provisions for Water Supply and Short-Term Provisions for Emergency Drought Relief Act3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2902114th CongressWestern Water Supply and Planning Enhancement Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3021115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5303114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2848114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20162 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.
The Ferguson Group
Covered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Ken Calvert.
