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.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
11 filings
$180K 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4472111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2946111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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-commerical-lines-inc.
110th Congress
To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.
3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1578110th CongressBallast Water Management Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1892110th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3258110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 892112th CongressStop Asian Carp Act2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 471112th CongressStop Asian Carp Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 4899111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5892111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3635111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2354112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
S. 3635112th CongressFAST Voting Act of 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Jones Walker, LLP
Covered position: LA- Rep. B. Jindal; Counsel- House CGMT Sub.
3 filingsthrough 2009
John P FlynnJones Walker, LLP2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
