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.
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
52 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
41 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Jeffrey L VorbergerCovered position: Legislative Director, Cong. John Peterson29 filings1 client · through 2019
Erik Milito24 filings1 client · through 2026
Richard C EnglandCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Energy Policy Advisor, Legislative Director, and Deputy Chief of Staff, Washington Office, Rep. Pete Olson16 filings1 client · through 2022
Megan BelCovered position: Leg Dir, Cong Scalise; Dep Dir, RSC; Leg Ass, Cong Baker15 filings1 client · through 2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 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-ocean-industries-association.
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 $4.2M in expenses.
ENG · 1 client
39 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
34 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 1 client
26 filings
$559K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
16 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
15 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
10 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
8 filings
$300K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
7 filings
$670K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
4 filings
$580K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
4 filings
$370K 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.
Timothy Tyler ChartersCovered position: Staff Director, House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
11 filings1 client · through 2019
Matthew Nicholas GiaconaCovered position: Intern, Rep. Fred Upton9 filings1 client · through 2025
Coby SammisCovered position: Field Representative, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Clay Higgins5 filings1 client · through 2026
Michael Kearns5 filings1 client · through 2008
THOMAS A FRY iii5 filings1 client · through 2008
Kim A Harb5 filings1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 6 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.
