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.
Michael MessmerOceana, Inc.Covered position: Mid 1999-2001: Research Associate - US House of Representatives, Democratic Policy Committee (Chairman: Richard A. Gephardt); 2001-2002: Policy Advisor - US House of Representatives, Democratic Policy Committee (Chairman: Richard A. Gephardt)33 filingsthrough 2026
Taylor Anne MannOceana, Inc.Covered position: Legal Fellow, Senator Cory Booker, August 2022- May 202312 filingsthrough 2026
George Connor FaganOceana, Inc.Covered position: Sea Grant Knauss Fellow, National Marine Mammal Commission
The filings
The 20 most recent of 86 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: oceana-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.
ENV
13 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$265K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$340K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$240K 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.
113th Congress
Safety And Fraud Enforcement for Seafood Act
9 filingsthrough 2014
S. 520113th CongressSafety And Fraud Enforcement for Seafood Act9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4821118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20248 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 200115th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1106117th CongressShark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 877116th CongressShark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1897119th CongressESA Amendments Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2881119th CongressCOAST Anti-Drilling Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1432119th CongressWest Coast Ocean Protection Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1486119th CongressCOAST Anti-Drilling Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4561118th CongressReducing Waste in National Parks Act6 filingsthrough 2024
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.
12 filingsthrough 2024
Elizabeth Whitney WebberOceana, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Representative John Murtha (D-PA)11 filingsthrough 2019
