17 filings from 3 registrants · 2009–2023 · latest filed Jan 22, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$678K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$678K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
13 filings
$508K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
9 filings
$470K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2741118th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
S. 3635111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Emily PatroliaEsp Advisors, LLCCovered position: Legislative Fellow, Senator John Thune11 filingsthrough 2023
Katherine MontgomeryEsp Advisors, LLCCovered position: Legislative Fellow, Senator Roger Wicker6 filingsthrough 2022
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: ocean-power-technologies.
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.
BUD
4 filings
$130K 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.
M Victoria CramBall Janik LLP4 filingsthrough 2010
Hal D HiemstraBall Janik LLP4 filingsthrough 2010
Michael A LeibnerMoffett Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2010
Heath HeikkilaBall Janik LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor, NOAA- U.S. Dept. of Commerce4 filingsthrough 2010
Anthony J MoffettMoffett Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2010
