The Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal… — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District
Louisiana
26 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2016 · latest filed Jan 23, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$780K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$780K
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.
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
26 filings
$780K on those filings
Defense
DEF
26 filings
$780K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 28 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 218113th CongressHarbor Maintenance Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
Campbell KaufmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff House Member Office (McCrery & Cooksey)29 filingsthrough 2016
John KeastCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Wicker)29 filingsthrough 2016
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Senate Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte29 filingsthrough 2016
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc. Staff Ast House Member (Bruce); Senate Project Dir (Johnston)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 26 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: the-lake-charles-harbor-and-terminal-district.
26 filings
$780K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$420K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
14 filings
$420K 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.
H.R. 4800113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4923113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5055114th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5303114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5505114th CongressGSE Review and Reform Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2504114th CongressMAILS Act2 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2804114th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2848114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
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:
29 filingsthrough 2016
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff; House Approps (Lewis, Young, Livingston)28 filingsthrough 2016
Daniel Edison FlemingCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2013
Fred James ClarkCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep Chief Counsel, House Ag Committee11 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
