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.
Eric MensingAmerican President Lines, LLC27 filingsthrough 2021
Tim PerryAmerican President Lines, LLC21 filingsthrough 2020
John Krister HolladayAmerican President Lines, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Cong. Kay Granger (R-TX) 6/2020-12/2020 Chief of Staff, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) 1/2003-3/2007 Chief of Staff, Cong. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) 11/2001-1/200316 filingsthrough 2025
Ashley W CraigVenable LLP5 filingsthrough 2020
Elizabeth K Lowe
The filings
The 20 most recent of 43 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-president-lines-llc.
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.
10 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
9 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$730K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$580K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$190K 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.
117th Congress
Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021
6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1541119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4993118th CongressTo amend title 46, United States Code, to include the replacement or purchase of additional cargo handling equipment as an eligible purpose for Capital Construction Funds, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20224 filingsthrough 2021
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.Con.Res. 92117th CongressDeclaring a state of emergency due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in order to establish a waiver of the minimum tonnage requirements of section 55305 of title 46, United States Code.3 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Venable LLP
5 filingsthrough 2020
Richard BalzanoAmerican President Lines, LLCCovered position: Sen. Jim Inhofe - Special Assistant (Nov. 2022- March 2023); U.S. Department of Transportation - Deputy Maritime Administrator (Oct. 2017-January 2021); House Homeland Security Committee - Professional Staff Member (Jan. 2008-March 2009)4 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey G WeissVenable LLPCovered position: Associate Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, The White House; Senior Director, Technical Barriers to Trade, Office of the USTR; Assistant General Counsel, Office of the USTR4 filingsthrough 2020
Wesley SudduthVenable LLP4 filingsthrough 2020
Josh FinestoneVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Graves; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Senior Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation2 filingsthrough 2019
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak2 filingsthrough 2019
Robert FreemanCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Senate Commerce2 filingsthrough 2017
Nicholas ChoateAmerican President Lines, LLC1 filingthrough 2019
Josh FinestoneAmerican President Lines, LLC1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
