Lobbying registrant · LD-2 disclosures
John Watts
District of Columbia
2 filings · 1 client · 1 lobbyist registered · 2025 · latest filed Apr 6, 2026
Fees billed to clients
$50K
every LD-2 fee on file
Its own lobbying spend
$0
none reported
Clients represented
1
1 lobbyist registered
Revenue over time
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 they lobby for
Every client this registrant has billed a fee to represent, by fees reported.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $50K in fees and $0 in expenses.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
2 filings
$50K 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.
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
- John WattsCovered position: Staff to Senator Dianne Feinstein (Environmental Counsel, 2003-2008; Legislative Director, 2008-2017; Senior Counselor, 2017-2023); Policy Advisor, Senator Laphonza Butler (November 2023 to January 2024)4 filings1 client · through 2025
Covered positions · 1 of 1 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: john-watts.