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
55 filings
$7.5M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
55 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Michael MessmerCovered position: Mid 1999-2001: Research Associate - US House of Representatives, Democratic Policy Committee (Chairman: Richard A. Gephardt); 2001-2002: Policy Advisor - US House of Representatives, Democratic Policy Committee (Chairman: Richard A. Gephardt)33 filings1 client · through 2026
Taylor Anne MannCovered position: Legal Fellow, Senator Cory Booker, August 2022- May 202312 filings1 client · through 2026
George Connor FaganCovered position: Sea Grant Knauss Fellow, National Marine Mammal Commission12 filings1 client · through 2024
Elizabeth Whitney WebberCovered position: Legislative Director, Representative John Murtha (D-PA)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: oceana-inc.
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 $8M in expenses.
ENV · 1 client
13 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
12 filings
$265K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
2 filings
$340K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
2 filings
$240K 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.
11 filings1 client · through 2019
Beth Ann Lowell11 filings1 client · through 2011
Ariana SpawnCovered position: Legislative Aide, Senator Cory Booker10 filings1 client · through 2021
Buffy Baumann9 filings1 client · through 2010
NANCY L SOPKO esq8 filings1 client · through 2013
Matt Niemerski8 filings1 client · through 2010
WILLIAM RALPH FADELY iii7 filings1 client · through 2018
Paulita April Bennett-Martin5 filings1 client · through 2023
Lora Diane Snyder5 filings1 client · through 2018
Courtney Sakai5 filings1 client · through 2009
Ariel Elyse Moger4 filings1 client · through 2018
Rebecca Whitehead Zisser4 filings1 client · through 2013
Anna Gowan4 filings1 client · through 2012
Courtney Elizabeth Milley3 filings1 client · through 2026
Danielle CloutierCovered position: Legislative Fellow, Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI)3 filings1 client · through 2018
Mariah Oaneill Pfleger3 filings1 client · through 2017
Corry Westbrook3 filings1 client · through 2013
Randy Eugene Sturgill2 filings1 client · through 2017
Chloe Paravicini1 filing1 client · through 2025
Amelia Rebecca Vorpahl1 filing1 client · through 2017
Caroline Tinsley Wood1 filing1 client · through 2017
Benjamin Hayman1 filing1 client · through 2012
Covered positions · 6 of 25 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.
