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: american-bureau-of-shipping.
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.
DEF
19 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
17 filings
$670K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$520K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
8 filings
$520K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$520K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$120K on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
1 filing
$10K 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.
113th Congress
Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014
7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2998112th CongressEthical Shipping Inspections Act of 20117 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3409116th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2297116th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1987114th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4251112th CongressSMART Port Security Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1496112th CongressEthical Shipping Inspections Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4552119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20264 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2465119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20264 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7659118th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4005113th CongressCoast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1601112th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20124 filingsthrough 2012
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.
American Bureau of Shipping
Covered position: LA, Office of Rep Dana Rohrabacher
18 filingsthrough 2017
Jesse LashbrookAmerican Bureau of Shipping13 filingsthrough 2014
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Sen Gramm3 filingsthrough 2019
Amy R HammerHammer Associates, LLC3 filingsthrough 2012
Christopher PlochMission Strategies LLC (Energy)Covered position: Senior Advisor, US DOE; Legislative Counsel, Rep. Byron Donalds2 filingsthrough 2026
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2019
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Office of the Speaker; General Counsel, Committee on House Oversight; Minority Counsel, Committee on House Administration2 filingsthrough 2017
Michael O'NeilK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff/Gen Counsel, CIA2 filingsthrough 2015
EDWARD CHARLES OLIVARES jrK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Leg Liaison, USSOCOM2 filingsthrough 2011
Sean T ConnaughtonAmerican Bureau of Shipping2 filingsthrough 2009
Andrew Hillerich TablerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs1 filingthrough 2026
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Large Case Team Coordinator, IRS; Motor Vehicle Industry Specialist, IRS; Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee1 filingthrough 2020
Pamela GarvieK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2019
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 24 of 33 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
