American Great Lakes Ports Association — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
American Great Lakes Ports Association
District of Columbia
62 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2024 · latest filed Jan 30, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$2.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.5M
across every firm on file
Spend 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 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
52 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$540K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
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-great-lakes-ports-association.
BUD
10 filings
$380K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$250K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$120K 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.
112th Congress
Short Sea Shipping Act of 2011
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3486111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4472111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1509111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2946111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2830110th CongressTo 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.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 981110th CongressGreat Lakes Short Sea Shipping Enhancement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1573110th CongressEarly Childhood Investment Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1683110th CongressGreat Lakes Short Sea Shipping Enhancement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3199110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain shipping from the harbor maintenance tax.3 filingsthrough 2008
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.
