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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
50 filings
$123K 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3486111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1110th CongressImplementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1495110th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 2007
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
James E CaponitiAmerican Maritime CongressCovered position: President (formerly, Executive Director)43 filingsthrough 2021
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-maritime-congress.
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.
2 filings
through 2008
H.R. 1585110th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20082 filingsthrough 2008
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.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 802110th CongressMaritime Pollution Prevention Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1541119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20251 filingthrough 2026
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 Maritime Congress
Covered position: Director of Legislative Affairs
9 filingsthrough 2011
Sean JoyceAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Patrick McHenry; Legislative Director, Congressman Shuster; Communications Director, Congressman Shuster; Military Legislative Advisor, Congressman Shuster; Senior Legislative Advisor, Congressman Shuster3 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher W EddowesAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Congressman Lloyd Smucker3 filingsthrough 2026
Alex BoltonAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis3 filingsthrough 2026
Robert ParmiterAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel/Senior Counsel/Counsel, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, & Homeland Security; Staff Asst., House Judiciary Committee3 filingsthrough 2026
Sean CallahanAmerican Maritime Congress3 filingsthrough 2014
Bobby CornettAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Head of Legislative Affairs, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Department of Defense; Deputy Chief of Staff, Congressman Trent Franks2 filingsthrough 2026
Brian SchoenemanAmerican Maritime CongressCovered position: Executive Director2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 10 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
