AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP

Lobbying client · District of Columbia · filed 2025 to 2026

Maritime coalition supporting the Jones Act and other cabotage laws.

$3,032,000 Reported spend

10 Filings counted

2 Outside firms hired

12 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 10 filings. The LDA keeps a separate client record for every registrant that files for a client, so this page adds up 2 records, one per registrant listed below. Records are combined when the client name matches once case, punctuation and endings such as Inc. or LLC are set aside; for a city, county or port the state has to match as well.

Who filed for this client 2

K&L GATES, LLP $2,800,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC $232,000 Outside firm · 3 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

Bills named in these filings 12

H.R. 3151
SHIPS for America Act of 2025

6 filings
S. 1536
Building Ships in America Act of 2025

6 filings
S. 1541
SHIPS for America Act of 2025

6 filings
S. 524
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025

4 filings
H. Con. Res. 14
Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth…

2 filings
H.R. 3838
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fisc…

2 filings
H.R. 4275
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025

2 filings
H.R. 8800
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

2 filings
S. 2296
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

2 filings
S. 4784
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

2 filings
S. Con. Res. 7
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for…

2 filings
H.R. 1
One Big Beautiful Bill Act

1 filing

Reported by year 2 years

2026 $1,742,000 6 filings
2025 $1,290,000 4 filings

Issues lobbied 1

Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries 10

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

Agencies and chambers lobbied 14

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 8
SENATE 8
Maritime Administration (MARAD) 7
White House Office 7
Transportation, Dept of (DOT) 6
Defense, Dept of (DOD) 5
Natl Security Council (NSC) 5
Office of Management & Budget (OMB) 5
Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 3
Executive Office of the President (EOP) 2
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) 2
Federal Maritime Commission 1
Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS) 1
U.S. Customs & Border Protection 1

Recent filings 10 total

Q3 report

K&L GATES, LLP

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $420,000 income · posted Oct 20, 2026

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CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $180,000 income · posted Oct 20, 2026

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CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · $52,000 income · posted Sep 21, 2026

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CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · posted Sep 17, 2026

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K&L GATES, LLP

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $620,000 income · posted Jul 16, 2026

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K&L GATES, LLP

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $470,000 income · posted Apr 15, 2026

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K&L GATES, LLP

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · House · Senate · $290,000 income · posted Jan 14, 2026

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K&L GATES, LLP

3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $400,000 income · posted Oct 16, 2025

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K&L GATES, LLP

2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $290,000 income · posted Jul 16, 2025

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K&L GATES, LLP

1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $310,000 income · posted Apr 18, 2025

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Filings through October 20, 2026, the newest posted date on this record. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, synced daily. Money is self-reported by the filer and often rounded. Lobbying is legal, disclosed activity.