Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The O Team (on Behalf of American Messaging)
District of Columbia
17 filings from 1 registrant · 2012–2016 · latest filed Jul 19, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$100K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$100K
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.
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
11 filings
$100K on those filings
Education
EDU
11 filings
$100K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Christina Hamilton Gephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Approps Coord, and Admin Asst, Rep. Obey12 filingsthrough 2015
- Thomas O'Donnell Gephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader5 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 2 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
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: the-o-team-on-behalf-of-american-messaging.