MARITIME INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Lobbying for MARITIME INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Filing · LD-2 quarterly report Q2 report

Reporting period

2nd Quarter 2026

Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Jul 21, 2026

Expenses

$60,000

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using the LDA's own definitions (method A): the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Conviction disclosures 1

A registrant must disclose criminal convictions of the lobbyists it lists, under the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. This is the filer's own wording.

C JAMES PATTI 2002

Violation of one count of 18 USC 1341; sentenced to two years of probation

Government bodies contacted 5

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when. Each name opens every filing that named the same body.

Lobbying activity 1

Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries

HR 665 - Noncontiguous Shipping Competition Act HR 666 - Noncontiguous Shipping Reasonable Rate Act HR 667 - Noncontiguous Shipping Relief Act HR 3151 - SHIPS for America Act of 2025 S.1541 - SHIPS for America Act of 2025 S.1534 - Building Ships in America Act of 2025

Bills named in this filing 6

H.R. 665
Noncontiguous Shipping Competition Act
H.R. 666
Noncontiguous Shipping Reasonable Rate Act of 2024
H.R. 667
Noncontiguous Shipping Relief Act of 2024
H.R. 3151
SHIPS for America Act of 2025
S. 1541
SHIPS for America Act of 2025
S. 1534
Women and Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Booster Act of 2025

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.