13 filings from 3 registrants · 2011–2013 · latest filed Jan 22, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$430K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$430K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
10 filings
$350K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$280K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act1 filingthrough 2012
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act1 filingthrough 2011
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Thomas J KeatingThe Ob-C Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2013
Nathan J MillerThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Lincoln Chafee Legislative Asstistant9 filingsthrough 2013
Robert G StevensonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Bill Frist Communications Director9 filingsthrough 2013
Robert H MarshThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Spec.Asst.to President George W. Bush9 filingsthrough 2013
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: motorola-mobility-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.
4 filings
$110K 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.
Michael S JohnsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Bob Michel Chief of Staff9 filingsthrough 2013
Patricia A NelsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former staffer, Committee on Ways and Means9 filingsthrough 2013
Lawrence F O'Brien, IiiThe Ob-C Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2013
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst, Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst, Rep. Eckart ; ; Admin. Asst, House Majority Leader ; ; Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader3 filingsthrough 2012
Erin StrawnStanton Park GroupCovered position: SA, EA, LA, LD Rep. C. Weldon3 filingsthrough 2011
Valerie HenryStanton Park GroupCovered position: LA, Senator Crapo; LA, Senator Warner3 filingsthrough 2011
James DerderianStanton Park GroupCovered position: CoS, House Commerce; LA, LD, Rep. Bliley3 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 15 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
