39 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed Oct 14, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
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.
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: servicemaster.
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.
HOU
11 filings
$370K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
11 filings
$370K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
11 filings
$370K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
11 filings
$370K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
5 filings
$240K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$240K 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.
4 filings
through 2008
H.R. 3441115th CongressSave Local Business Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2446112th CongressRESPA Home Warranty Clarification Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1934111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Thomas J Keating
The Ob-C Group, LLC
8 filingsthrough 2016
Robert G StevensonThe Ob-C Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2016
Robert H MarshThe Ob-C Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2016
Michael S JohnsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former COS Rep. Michel8 filingsthrough 2016
Patricia A NelsonThe Ob-C Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2016
Lawrence F O'Brien, IiiThe Ob-C Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2016
Daniel KideraThe Ob-C Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2016
David HeilThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Sam Johnson 3rd Texas5 filingsthrough 2016
