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.
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-marine-manufacturers-association.
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.
FUE
104 filings
$13.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
83 filings
$13.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
76 filings
$13.1M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
67 filings
$12M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
50 filings
$10.7M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
39 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
38 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
34 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
33 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
32 filings
$3.7M 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.
115th Congress
Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act
11 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1520115th CongressModernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 201811 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 160118th CongressSALT Fairness Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3409116th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1315115th CongressRFS Reform Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1666111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2550110th CongressRecreational Boating Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4323118th CongressProtecting Whales, Human Safety and the Economy Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1833118th CongressProtecting Whales, Human Safety, and the Economy Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1304117th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1346117th CongressHospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 160117th CongressRestoring Resilient Reefs 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:
36 filingsthrough 2021
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002)32 filingsthrough 2026
Clayton CrabtreeNational Marine Manufacturers AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Joe Manchin32 filingsthrough 2026
Caroline Anne HoytNational Marine Manufacturers Association26 filingsthrough 2024
JEFFREY STEPHEN GABRIEL jrNational Marine Manufacturers Association26 filingsthrough 2016
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)19 filingsthrough 2022
Cindy L SquiresNational Marine Manufacturers Association19 filingsthrough 2013
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Kelly Ayotte, April 14 - Jan. 1717 filingsthrough 2026
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate17 filingsthrough 2021
Elizabeth BennettForbes-TateCovered position: Int, Rep Ron Lewis (2007); SA LC LA, Rep Brett Guthrie (2009-2013); LA, Rep Andy Barr (2013); LA, Sen Mitch McConnell (2013-2015); DepAssocAdmin, EPA (2017); AssocAdmin, EPA (2017-2020); SpecAssistPres, EOP (2020-2021); SenAdv, USDA (2020-2021)16 filingsthrough 2024
Elizabeth YranskiNational Marine Manufacturers Association13 filingsthrough 2018
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)7 filingsthrough 2020
Michael Robert PaskoNational Marine Manufacturers AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Aaron Schock, Executive Assistant to the Chairman, Executive Office of the President, CEQ7 filingsthrough 2018
