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
73 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
14 filings
$931K on those filings
Agriculture
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 38 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 525119th CongressA bill to 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 2026
H.R. 2646111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2984111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Erick SiahaanMarine Engineers' Beneficial AssociationCovered position: Director of Government Affairs33 filingsthrough 2026
William Van LooMarine Engineers' Beneficial AssociationCovered position: Secretary-Treasurer30 filingsthrough 2020
Matt DwyerMarine Engineers' Beneficial AssociationCovered position: Director of Government Affairs29 filingsthrough 2018
Michael A IngraoMichael a. Ingrao7 filingsthrough 2011
The filings
The 20 most recent of 73 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: marine-engineers-beneficial-association.
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.
AGR
13 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
7 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$510K 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.
6 filings
through 2010
H.R. 3151119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3829116th CongressEnergizing American Shipbuilding Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2167116th CongressEnergizing American Shipbuilding Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
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.4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1541119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1819117th CongressEnergizing American Shipbuilding Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2021
S. 576117th CongressGreat Lakes Winter Commerce Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2021
S. 707117th CongressEnergizing American Shipbuilding Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 5351116th CongressShort Sea Shipping Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 550116th CongressMerchant Mariners of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
