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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
102 filings
$7.9M 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 174 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1207119th CongressTo transfer the functions, duties, responsibilities, assets, liabilities, orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, grants, loans, contracts, agreements, certificates, licenses, and privileges of the United States Agency for International Development relating to implementing and administering the Food for Peace Act to the Department of Agriculture.8 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 7659118th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20248 filingsthrough 2024
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-officers.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
116th Congress
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 524119th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20257 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20207 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20216 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1260110th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6301 Highway 58 in Harrison, Tennessee, as the "Claude Ramsey Post Office".6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1557110th CongressFor the relief of Elvira Arellano.6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2084110th CongressFamily Budget Protection Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3138110th CongressTo amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to update the definition of electronic surveillance.6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 316110th CongressTo direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the village of Santa Clara, the city of Bayard, or the county of Grant, in the State of New Mexico, in tracts of not less than 40 acres, at market price at its present state of use as agricultural grazing lands as determined by the Secretary, for business and community development, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 820110th CongressSeniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 20076 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.
Thomas J BethelAmerican Maritime OfficersCovered position: National President30 filingsthrough 2014
William BarrereAmerican Maritime OfficersCovered position: National President11 filingsthrough 2026
