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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
44 filings
$220K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
33 filings
$330K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2810110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against income tax for biomethane produced from biomass which is equivalent to the credit allowed for electricity produced from biomass.8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1495110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on vessels operating in the dual United States domestic and foreign trades, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 58
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Victor SmithBose Public Affairs Group35 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick RaffanielloRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster21 filingsthrough 2014
James T TurnerTurner Pollard Strategies, LLC16 filingsthrough 2015
JOHN J POLLARD iiiTurner Pollard Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff of U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton and HASC16 filingsthrough 2015
The filings
The 20 most recent of 84 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: matson-navigation-company-inc.
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.
MAR
20 filings
$306K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$140K 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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1267112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on certain vessels.5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 57112th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on certain vessels.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1533112th CongressShort Sea Shipping Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3173112th CongressTo direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to reform the process for the enrollment, activation, issuance, and renewal of a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) to require, in total, not more than one in-person visit to a designated enrollment center.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2816110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on vessels operating in the dual United States domestic and foreign trades, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2008
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.
