26 filings from 2 registrants · 2017–2023 · latest filed Feb 23, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$65K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$65K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
24 filings
$60K 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. 2079115th CongressYoung Fishermen's Development Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
Jeffrey Riter PikePike Associates LLCCovered position: COS Merchant Marine and Fisheries21 filingsthrough 2021
Jennifer Leah PlacePike Associates LLC19 filingsthrough 2021
Jennifer Leah PlaceTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC6 filingsthrough 2022
Jason TaiTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. William Lipinski; Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Dan Lipinski; Associate Professional Staff Member, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee4 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 26 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: fishing-communities-coalition.
117th Congress
Eliminating the Provider Relief Fund Tax Penalties Act of 2021
6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4690117th CongressSustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 200117th CongressNational Intersection and Interchange Safety Construction Program Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4664117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 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.
Augustus MaplesTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies4 filingsthrough 2022
Leigh C. HabeggerPike Associates LLC1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
