57 filings from 1 registrant · 2011–2025 · latest filed Jan 19, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$3.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.8M
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.
Banking
BAN
57 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
56 filings
$3.7M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: natixis-im.
H.R. 4096114th CongressInvestor Clarity and Bank Parity Act4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 796115th CongressEmployer Participation in Repayment Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
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 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
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
54 filingsthrough 2024
David HeilThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Congressman Sam Johnson42 filingsthrough 2025
Michael S JohnsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Bob Michel Chief of Staff29 filingsthrough 2018
Daniel KideraThe Ob-C Group, LLC19 filingsthrough 2020
Nathan J MillerThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Lincoln Chafee Legislative Assistant18 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
