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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
42 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
42 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
John CrowleyCovered position: Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard22 filings1 client · through 2019
CHARLES T CARROLL jr20 filings1 client · through 2014
F Edwin Froelich20 filings1 client · through 2014
Carl BentzelCovered position: Commissioner, FMC12 filings1 client · through 2026
Lauren Kotas BrandCovered position: South Atlantic Gateway Dir., MARAD (2008-2010); Dir. Office of Marine Hwys, MARAD (2010-2015); Assoc. Admin. Office of Ports & Waterways, MARAD (2015-2019)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: national-association-of-waterfront-employers.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $4.8M in expenses.
TRU · 1 client
39 filings
$2M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
24 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
6 filings
$600K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
6 filings
$300K 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 money 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.
10 filings1 client · through 2022
Robert MurrayCovered position: Leg. Director, Acting Leg. Director, Sen. Leg. Assistant, Leg. Assistant, Jr. Leg. Assistant, Leg. Correspondent, Correspondent Manager and Special Assistant to Sen. Roger Wicker9 filings1 client · through 2024
John YoungCovered position: Legislative Dir., Juanita Millender-McDonald; Legislative Dir., Rep. Doris Matsui; Counsel, FMC7 filings1 client · through 2026
David Farmer5 filings1 client · through 2009
Doyce Boesch5 filings1 client · through 2009
Frank Craddock1 filing1 client · through 2009
Covered positions · 5 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
