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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$270K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
14 filings
$270K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3063113th CongressHealthy Fisheries through Better Science Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2772112th CongressSaving Fishing Jobs Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
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: south-atlantic-fishermens-association.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015
3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4742113th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2437113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5326112th CongressDepartment of Justice Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2323112th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1207114th CongressHealthy Fisheries through Better Science Act1 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 1335114th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act1 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 2787113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 933113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 1329113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
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.
7 filingsthrough 2014
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2014
James SartucciK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Sen Lott; Prof Staff/Coast Guard Fellow, ; ; Sen Comm on Commerce, Science & Transportation4 filingsthrough 2014
