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: sea-grant-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.
SCI
38 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Education
EDU
34 filings
$1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
33 filings
$990K 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.
114th Congress
National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2015
9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20167 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 729116th CongressCoastal and Great Lakes Communities Enhancement Act6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1900114th CongressNational Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4306115th CongressNational Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 129115th CongressNational Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4394114th CongressOCEAN Research Partnerships Act4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3138115th CongressAQUAA Act3 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.
through 2014
Meg ThompsonOldaker Group, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff, House Approps., Sen. Approps.9 filingsthrough 2014
Philip Jackson ByeOldaker Group, LLC7 filingsthrough 2014
Frank M CushingOldaker Group, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff and Staff Dir., House Com. on Approps6 filingsthrough 2012
