Note · At least one filing discloses a foreign entity with an interest in a client this registrant represents. Those disclosures are listed below.
Reported 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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
29 filings
$20.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
20 filings
$15.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Brian C. ConklinCovered position: 2001-2002 Special Assistant to the President, 2004-2007 Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs21 filings1 client · through 2024
Jeffrey DresslerCovered position: National Security Advisor, Speaker Paul Ryan: 2017-2019; National Security Advisor, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy: 2015-2017; Professional Staff Member, House Foreign Affairs Committee: 2013-2015.16 filings1 client · through 2026
Sarah Alison JonesCovered position: 1999-2000 Assistant to Senator Paul Coverdell, 2001-2002 Assistant to the Deputy to the President for Legislative Affairs, 2002-2004 Presidential Nominations Manager in the Executive Office of the President15 filings1 client · through 2022
Lauren Valainis
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Masayoshi Son
Japan
1 filing
through 2023
Softbank Group Corp
Japan
1 filing
through 2019
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: sb-group-us-inc-dba-softbank-group-us-inc.
Sb Group US, Inc. DBA Softbank Group US,… — Receipts Report
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $20.7M in expenses.
FIN · 1 client
20 filings
$15.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
15 filings
$11.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
12 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
11 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
10 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
8 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
4 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN · 1 client
3 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Aerospace
AER · 1 client
3 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 1 client
2 filings
$960K 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 money 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.
Covered position: 2011-2012 Staff Assistant to Congressman Jeff Duncan, 2012-2013 Press Assistant to Congressman Jeff Duncan, 2013-2017 Scheduler to Congressman Jeff Duncan
11 filings1 client · through 2022
Tonya WilliamsCovered position: 2008-2011 Chief of Staff to Representative G.K. Butterfield, 2011-2016 Director of Legislative Affairs in the Office of the Vice President9 filings1 client · through 2021
Sean Taylor CallahanCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff & Legislative Director, Rep. Val Demings: 2022-2023; Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Mazie Hirono: 2016-2017; Dep. Chief of Staff, Rep. Mark Takai: 2015-2016; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Colleen Hanabusa: 2011-2014.5 filings1 client · through 2026
Emily ChristyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and International Advisor, FCC: 2005-2006; Director, Office of Senior Advisor to the President, Executive Office of the President: 2007; Director of the Advocacy Center, Department of Commerce: 2008-20094 filings1 client · through 2025
Lauren BeliveCovered position: 2007-2008 Staff Assistant for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 2009-2012 Legislative Assistant, White House Office of Legislative Affairs, 2012-2015 Policy Director for the House Committee on Rules3 filings1 client · through 2022
Covered positions · 8 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
