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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
5 filings
$134K 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. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20083 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.3 filingsthrough 2008
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-service.
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.
110th Congress
Food Security and Agricultural Development Act of 2007
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6374110th CongressAmerican Shipping Reinvestment Act of 20083 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
S. 3359110th CongressAmerican Shipping Reinvestment Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1499111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2419111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2830111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2844111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 6374111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3199111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3359111th 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.
