55 filings from 1 registrant · 2011–2025 · latest filed May 6, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.2M
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles
APP
54 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
53 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 10115th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
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: kohls-department-stores-inc.
CSP
53 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Banking
BAN
33 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
26 filings
$1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
23 filings
$920K on those filings
Postal
POS
12 filings
$480K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
10 filings
$400K 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.
113th Congress
Postal Reform Act of 2014
4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2309112th CongressPostal Reform Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2701112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1452112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1625112th CongressPostal Reform Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2775114th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.2 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2193115th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 20171 filingthrough 2018
S. 976115th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20171 filingthrough 2018
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, Committee on Ways and Means
55 filingsthrough 2024
David HeilThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Congressman Sam Johnson39 filingsthrough 2025
Michael S JohnsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Bob Michel Chief of Staff30 filingsthrough 2018
Daniel KideraThe Ob-C Group, LLC19 filingsthrough 2020
Nathan J MillerThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Lincoln Chafee Legislative Assistant19 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
