Ports America, Inc. — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ports America, Inc.
New Jersey
15 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Jan 16, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
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.
Christopher DelacyHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Counsel, House Science Cmte., Technology Subcmte.; Counsel, Senator John Warner10 filingsthrough 2018
Michael FriedbergHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Rail Subcmte., House Transp. & Infrastructure Cmte.; Professional Staff, House Appropriations Committee10 filingsthrough 2018
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: ports-america-inc.
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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.
LBR
5 filings
$600K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$160K 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
John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
S. 2098115th CongressForeign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
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.
6 filings
through 2009
Moses MercadoOgr6 filingsthrough 2009
Wayne BermanOgr6 filingsthrough 2009
Andrew RosenbergOgr6 filingsthrough 2009
Scott David MasonHolland & Knight LLP5 filingsthrough 2018
John GreenOgrCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff/ Leg Aide, Sen Trent Lott4 filingsthrough 2009
Lauri Anne HettingerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA & Staff Director, Sen. George Voinovich; LA, Sen. Norm Coleman; LA & Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Strom Thurmund3 filingsthrough 2017
W Christopher LamondOgrCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff/ Leg Aide, Sen Trent Lott1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 6 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
