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: seaworld-parks-entertainment-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.
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
17 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$440K 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.
114th Congress
JOLT Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4800113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20156 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3935111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1035111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4019114th CongressOrca Responsibility and Care Advancement Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1354113th CongressJOLT Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2935111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3732111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1023111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5584114th CongressShark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3059114th CongressMarine Mammal Research and Response Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4450113th CongressTravel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Michael S Johnson
The Ob-C Group, LLC
Covered position: Former Bob Michel Chief of Staff
25 filingsthrough 2015
Patricia A NelsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Staffer, Committee on Ways & Means25 filingsthrough 2015
Lawrence F O'Brien, IiiThe Ob-C Group, LLC25 filingsthrough 2015
Nathan J MillerThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Lincoln Chafee Legislative Assistant24 filingsthrough 2015
Jill Homer StewartSeaworld Parks & Entertainment, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Peter Visclosky; Staff Assistant, Congressman Robert Weygand; Staff Assistant, Senator Dianne Feinstein7 filingsthrough 2016
Michelle KermesSeaworld Parks & Entertainment, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2016
Beth ThibodauxSeaworld Parks & Entertainment, Inc.1 filingthrough 2016
James R GalbraithSeaworld Parks & Entertainment, Inc.Covered position: Special Projects Director, Cong. Michael Bilirakis ('91-'96)1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 7 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
