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
70 filings
$816K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
11 filings
$129K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 119 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 200115th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2079115th CongressYoung Fishermen's Development Act of 20176 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: west-coast-seafood-processors-assn.
DIS
7 filings
$105K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$81K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$51K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
4 filings
$54K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$15K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$15K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$9K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$9K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$9K 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
Disarm Hate Act
6 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1143114th CongressWest Coast Dungeness Crab Management Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 614116th CongressShark Sales Elimination Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 788116th CongressSustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 737116th CongressBuilding Blocks of STEM Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1456115th CongressShark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1520115th CongressModernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
S. 793115th CongressShark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1335114th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4690117th CongressSustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
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.
