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.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
86 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$480K on those filings
Homeland Security
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3619112th CongressPermanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 3619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1499110th CongressMarine Vessel Emissions Reduction Act of 2008
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Aaron SmithOffshore Marine Service AssociationCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry (LA-3)46 filingsthrough 2026
James Leonard AdamsOffshore Marine Service AssociationCovered position: n/a12 filingsthrough 2013
Philip BangertSquire Patton Boggs11 filingsthrough 2011
WILLIAM STEVE SOUTHERLAND iiCapitol Hill Consulting GroupCovered position: William Steve Southerland, II served as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 100 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: offshore-marine-service-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.
HOM
2 filings
$140K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$70K 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.
1 filing
through 2008
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.
9 filings
through 2018
Ben BillingsOffshore Marine Service AssociationCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor to Sen. Mary Landrieu8 filingsthrough 2015
John J JaskotJones Walker, LLP7 filingsthrough 2017
R Christian JohnsenJones Walker, LLP7 filingsthrough 2017
Ken WellsOffshore Marine Service Association7 filingsthrough 2010
James Leonard AdamsMr. Jim Adams6 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey L TurnerSquire Patton Boggs6 filingsthrough 2011
