Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 8 clients
214 filings
$13.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 2 clients
138 filings
$8.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
David HobbsCovered position: Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs320 filings10 clients · through 2026
Covered positions · 1 of 1 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.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV
Belgium
1 filing
through 2013
Inbev Services B.V.
Belgium
1 filing
through 2013
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 318 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-hobbs-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 $19.3M in fees and $0 in expenses.
BUD · 4 clients
72 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV · 1 client
68 filings
$4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 3 clients
62 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 2 clients
61 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 4 clients
60 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
45 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 3 clients
34 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT · 2 clients
33 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 3 clients
30 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 3 clients
23 filings
$1.6M 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.
