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-ob-c-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 $45.7M in fees and $0 in expenses.
BAN · 10 clients
173 filings
$9.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 8 clients
141 filings
$6M on those filings
Housing
HOU · 6 clients
118 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 3 clients
90 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 7 clients
81 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 2 clients
79 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 4 clients
62 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Aerospace
AER · 2 clients
57 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV · 1 client
54 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 6 clients
54 filings
$2.2M 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.
1,017 filings49 clients · through 2026
Michael S JohnsonCovered position: Former COS Rep. Michel725 filings47 clients · through 2018
David HeilCovered position: Congressman Sam Johnson530 filings26 clients · through 2026
Nathan J MillerCovered position: Former Lincoln Chafee Legislative Assistant518 filings41 clients · through 2015
Daniel Kidera356 filings25 clients · through 2021
Charles J MellodyCovered position: Former senior staff member, Committee on Ways and Means89 filings23 clients · through 2008
Eric Wagner10 filings2 clients · through 2022
Covered positions · 7 of 11 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.
Inbev Services B.V.
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2013
Bpce
France
1 filing
through 2011
Natixis
France
1 filing
through 2011
Natixis Global Asset Management
France
1 filing
through 2011
Blackston Capital Partners (Cayman III) V, L.P.
Cayman Islands
1 filing
through 2010
Sw Cayman, L.P.(DIRECT Owner of Registrant)
Cayman Islands
1 filing
through 2010
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.
