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.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
38 filings
$340K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$110K on those filings
Defense
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 35 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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: stabbert-maritime.
DEF
16 filings
$290K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$20K 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
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016
5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3352111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2830110th CongressTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1892110th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4005113th CongressCoast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1194111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4505117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1987114th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1611114th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
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.
Covered position:
16 filingsthrough 2017
DUNCAN C SMITH iiiBlank Rome Government Relations13 filingsthrough 2013
Genevieve CowanBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Analyst, Joint Committee on Taxation (2015-2017); Legal Research Assistant, Joint Committee on Taxation (2011-2015)8 filingsthrough 2023
David JansenBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Dir., Subcom. on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, House Cmte. on Transportation and Infrastructure (2011-2021); Sr. Prof. Staff, Subcom. on Insular Affairs, Wildlife and Oceans, House Cmte. on Natural Resources (1999-2010)6 filingsthrough 2023
James DrewryBlank Rome Government Relations6 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
