Association of Global Automakers, Inc. — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Association of Global Automakers, Inc.
District of Columbia
73 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Feb 2, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$21.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$20.2M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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 lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: association-of-global-automakers-inc.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
TEC
29 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
10 filings
$5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$3M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
8 filings
$320K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
6 filings
$3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
5 filings
$2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$896K 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 spend 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.
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Patricia A Nelson
The Ob-C Group, LLC
Covered position: Former staffer, Ways and Means Committee
32 filingsthrough 2019
Lawrence F O'Brien, IiiThe Ob-C Group, LLC32 filingsthrough 2019
Michael S JohnsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Bob Michel Chief of Staff26 filingsthrough 2018
Hannah IzonAssociation of Global Automakers, Inc.25 filingsthrough 2019
Michael StantonAssociation of Global Automakers, Inc.23 filingsthrough 2014
John T BozzellaAssociation of Global Automakers, Inc.20 filingsthrough 2019
Daniel KideraThe Ob-C Group, LLC17 filingsthrough 2019
David HeilThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Sam Johnson17 filingsthrough 2019
Nathan J MillerThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Lincoln Chafee Legislative Assistant15 filingsthrough 2015
Stephen G GehringAssociation of Global Automakers, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2019
David Michael ThomasAssociation of Global Automakers, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2017
Jared Daniel EichhornAssociation of Global Automakers, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2019
Kristin MeadorsAssociation of Global Automakers, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2013
Damon PorterAssociation of Global Automakers, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
