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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
64 filings
Homeland Security
HOM
7 filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 56 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 200115th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act5 filingsthrough 2018
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: california-wetfish-producers-association.
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
5 filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
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.
115th Congress
Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2018
4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1335114th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4245114th CongressTo exempt exportation of certain echinoderms and mollusks from licensing requirements under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1369119th CongressProtecting Global Fisheries Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4236119th CongressAmerican Seafood Competitiveness Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
S. 688119th CongressFighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4262118th CongressFISHES Act2 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1240116th CongressYoung Fishermen's Development Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2236116th CongressForage Fish Conservation Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3697116th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act2 filingsthrough 2019
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.
