Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Science/Technology
SCI · 16 clients
80 filings
$415K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 6 clients
59 filings
$325K on those filings
Health Issues
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Ben Bawden127 filings20 clients · through 2012
Connor Martin102 filings12 clients · through 2026
Robert B CharlesCovered position: Ass't Sec'y of State INL; Staff Director House Subcommittee on National Security, Criminal Justice and International Affairs89 filings19 clients · through 2016
NELSON O BUNN jr68 filings11 clients · through 2014
Maria Petrakis43 filings11 clients · through 2010
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Newport Brain Research Laboratory Global Ltd
Samoa
1 filing
through 2014
Formula Vision Technologies, Ltd.
Israel
1 filing
through 2008
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the — 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 300 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: the-charles-group-llc.
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.
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 $1.5M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HCR · 3 clients
36 filings
$425K on those filings
Veterans
VET · 2 clients
36 filings
$290K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
30 filings
$390K on those filings
Retirement
RET · 1 client
30 filings
$390K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 6 clients
27 filings
$70K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 3 clients
20 filings
$140K on those filings
Aerospace
AER · 2 clients
20 filings
$10K on those filings
Education
EDU · 2 clients
11 filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
7 filings
$50K on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC · 1 client
6 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.
Laura CooperCovered position: Legislative Ass't/House Administration Comm Liaison
35 filings5 clients · through 2016
Parker Alan EricksonCovered position: legislative aide25 filings3 clients · through 2019
Hayley Andrews25 filings3 clients · through 2018
Jason Bryce Baker23 filings7 clients · through 2009
WILLIAM HENRY THOMPSON iii19 filings4 clients · through 2017
Caroline Rayburn14 filings2 clients · through 2015
Jessica Davis12 filings2 clients · through 2011
Rachel Wein8 filings2 clients · through 2015
Covered positions · 3 of 13 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.
