Air Transport Assn — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Air Transport Assn
District of Columbia
9 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jan 19, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$625K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$625K
across every firm on file
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 lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
9 filings
$625K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$345K on those filings
Transportation
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 97 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.Con.Res. 85111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1337111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Bill Frist9 filingsthrough 2010
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Zoe Lofgren9 filingsthrough 2010
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Shaddegg; Exec. Dir. RPC9 filingsthrough 2010
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: air-transport-assn.
TRA
5 filings
$345K 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 spend 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.
through 2010
H.R. 594111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 624111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 831111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 912111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 915111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 967111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 990111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 272111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 36111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 743111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
9 filingsthrough 2010
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus9 filingsthrough 2010
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist9 filingsthrough 2010
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy9 filingsthrough 2010
Jamie BrownMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to President for Legislative Affair9 filingsthrough 2010
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley9 filingsthrough 2010
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln8 filingsthrough 2010
Jonathan Russell HogansonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Rahm Emanuel7 filingsthrough 2010
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Prof Staff, House Cmte on Homeland Security6 filingsthrough 2010
