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.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
132 filings
$17.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
128 filings
$17.2M on those filings
Animals
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 102 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1313113th CongressTo amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act to repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and grading of catfish.14 filingsthrough 2014
S. 632113th CongressA bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and grading of catfish.14 filingsthrough 2014
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: national-fisheries-institute.
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.
ANI
68 filings
$13.4M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
59 filings
$9.6M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
49 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
45 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
45 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
44 filings
$9.1M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
37 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
37 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
37 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
37 filings
$7.4M 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.
117th Congress
United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021
12 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1012113th CongressSafety And Fraud Enforcement for Seafood Act12 filingsthrough 2014
S. 520113th CongressSafety And Fraud Enforcement for Seafood Act12 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1521113th CongressResponsible Seafood Certification and Labeling Act10 filingsthrough 2014
S. 267113th CongressPirate Fishing Elimination Act9 filingsthrough 2014
S. 269113th CongressInternational Fisheries Stewardship and Enforcement Act9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1118th CongressLower Energy Costs Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1213118th CongressRESCUE Whales Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2801117th CongressMETHANE Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 404117th CongressDriftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1106117th CongressShark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 20218 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position:
60 filingsthrough 2022
Kedrin Simms BrachmanNational Fisheries InstituteCovered position: Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development45 filingsthrough 2026
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLP32 filingsthrough 2016
George Nicholas CaramMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Officer, Special Assistant, National Security Council; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Sr. Staff Assistant, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Special Assistant, Rep. C.W. Bill Young.17 filingsthrough 2025
Morgan BellNational Fisheries Institute15 filingsthrough 2026
Paul S. BockHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Herb Kohl15 filingsthrough 2016
Shawna Francis WatleyHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 1993-1997 LA, Senator Robert F. Kerrey12 filingsthrough 2019
Scott David MasonHolland & Knight LLP11 filingsthrough 2020
Jim DavisHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 1/97-1/07, Member, US House of Representatives11 filingsthrough 2013
Diana M BosticNational Fisheries InstituteCovered position: VP, Political Affairs, National Fisheries Institute11 filingsthrough 2010
Samuel TatevosyanHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator Wayne Allard10 filingsthrough 2015
Todd WootenHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA, Counsel, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Leg. Dir, Sen. Debbie Stabenow; Prof. Staff, Sen. Agriculture Cmte., Prof. Staff, Sen. Energy & Natural Resources Cmte., Prof. Staff, Sen. Finance Cmte.8 filingsthrough 2022
Margaret Kathlyn HendersonNational Fisheries InstituteCovered position: Vice President, Government Relations8 filingsthrough 2009
Daniel MaldonadoHolland & Knight LLP7 filingsthrough 2016
Lynn G CutlerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 97-01 Sr. Adv. to Pres. for Native Am. issues7 filingsthrough 2014
