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.
Natural Resources
NAT
60 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
58 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 47116th CongressJohn D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act12 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1460115th CongressEnergy and Natural Resources Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Asst Secretary for Water & Science, DOI, 9/05-7/07 Deputy Commissioner for BOR at DOI 1/02-9/0570 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary IsraelThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, 05/2009-07/2009; 01/2010 Intern for former U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy, 09/2009-04/2010 Intern for former U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, 06/2010-08/201045 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 - 2001-200844 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 60 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: yakima-basin-joint-board.
CAW
58 filings
$1.6M 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.
114th Congress
Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 2015
9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2044116th CongressWater Supply Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Utilization Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1694114th CongressYakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Phase III Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20195 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2563115th CongressWater Supply Infrastructure and Drought Resilience Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2800115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
S. 4176117th CongressA bill to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to modify the eligibility requirements for certain small water storage and groundwater storage projects and to authorize the use of funds for certain additional Carey Act projects, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4231117th CongressSTREAM Act3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3422116th CongressGreat American Outdoors Act3 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3021115th CongressAmerica's Water Infrastructure Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2533114th CongressCalifornia Long-Term Provisions for Water Supply and Short-Term Provisions for Emergency Drought Relief Act3 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.
JOSEPH L RAEDER srThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Cal Dooley, 2/1991-3/1994 Legislative Assistant for Rep. Tony Coelho, 12/1987-8/1989
26 filingsthrough 2019
Lori PickfordThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: N/A19 filingsthrough 2020
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 3/2017-3/20218 filingsthrough 2026
