Lobbying Relationship

Client

First Marblehead Corporation

Student Loans More records

Lobbying firm

The OB-C Group. LLC

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  • No Specific Bill Number: Matters relating to the Private loan business.

Duration: to

General Issues: Education, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Bankruptcy, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Retirement

Spending: about $1,060,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Bills mentioned

H.R.5055: College Debt Swap Act of 2010

Sponsor: Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio)

H.R.5458: Christopher's Law

Sponsor: John Adler (D-N.J.)

S.1541: Private Student Loan Debt Swap Act of 2009

Sponsor: Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)

H.R.4173: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Sponsor: Barney Frank (D-Mass.)

H.R.3221: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009

Sponsor: George Miller (D-Calif.)

H.R.4872: Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

Sponsor: John M. Spratt Jr. (D-S.C.)

H.R.3997: Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
David Heil J Chief of Staff Congressman Sam Johnson TX
MICHAEL S. JOHNSON n/a
Thomas J. Keating n/a
ROBERT H. MARSH n/a
Charles J. Mellody n/a
Nathan J. Miller n/a
PATRICIA A. NELSON n/a
Lawrence F. O'Brien, III n/a
Robert G. Stevenson n/a
LAWRENCE F. O'Brien n/a
MARY ELLEN RUHLEN n/a
Linda E. Tarplin n/a
DANIEL KIDERA n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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