Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Mystic Aquarium
Connecticut
24 filings from 2 registrants · 2019–2022 · latest filed Jan 19, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$710K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$710K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
15 filings
$400K on those filings
Animals
ANI
8 filings
$310K 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 — 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. 8239 117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 2022
- H.R. 8294 117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Greg Schildwachter Watershed Results LLCCovered position: Executive Office of President (CEQ Assoc Dir); US Senate (EPW Subcmte staff dir, Sen Crapo, advisor).16 filingsthrough 2022
- Thomas Hunt Shipman Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte9 filingsthrough 2022
- Charles Booher Watershed Results LLC1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 2 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: mystic-aquarium.