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.
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: american-catalog-mailers-association.
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.
10 filings
$466K 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.
116th Congress
Online Sales Simplicity and Small Business Relief Act of 2019
5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2193115th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2887115th CongressNo Regulation Without Representation Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6076115th CongressPostal Reform Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 756115th CongressPostal Service Reform Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2629115th CongressPostal Service Reform Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
S. 976115th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 427119th CongressInterstate Commerce Simplification Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
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.
Brian Marshall Johnson
The Vogel Group
Covered position: Director of Federal Affairs, American Petroleum Institute
16 filingsthrough 2021
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Dir, Sen. Majority Leader Frist; Staff Dir. ; ; Sen Subcmte on Public Health; Maj Health Pol Counsel, House ; ; Cmte on Ways & Means, Subcmte on Health; Health Policy ; ; Coordinator & Counsel, Sen Cmte on Labor & Human Res, ; ; Subcmte on Disability Policy; Case Worker, Rep. R. Boschwitz14 filingsthrough 2015
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Lofgren; Dir of Congressional Rels, FTC ; ; Dep Dir of Leg Affairs, VP gore; Staff Asst, Sen. Metzenbaum14 filingsthrough 2015
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Blanche Lincoln14 filingsthrough 2015
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Ex Dir, House Republican Policy Cmte; Chief of Staff, ; ; Rep. John Shadess; L.A. Rep. Dannemeyer, LD, Rep. Bartlett14 filingsthrough 2015
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Chief of Staff, Rep. ; ; Norm Mineta; EA, Rep. Ed Markey14 filingsthrough 2015
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Chris Van Hollen; Director of Member ; ; Services, Office of the Assistant to the Speaker; Chief of ; ; Staff, Rep. Louise Slaughter14 filingsthrough 2015
Susan ZookMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. Bill Shuster11 filingsthrough 2015
Sohini GuptaMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health and Social Policy Counsel, Sen. Bayh9 filingsthrough 2015
Brian WildMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Office of Speaker John Boehner ; ; Deputy Assistant for Leg Affairs, VP Cheney ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pat Toomey ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Hank Brown8 filingsthrough 2014
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Majority Leader Frist6 filingsthrough 2014
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Prof Staff Member, House Cmte on Homeland Security6 filingsthrough 2014
Lauren AronsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff Member, Committee on Ways & Means; Policy Director, White House; Policy Director, HHS Office of Health Reform (detailed to the White House); Policy Advisor, Rep. Rahm Emanuel; Health LA, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy5 filingsthrough 2015
Stacey RampyMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Rep. Eshoo; LA, Sen. Torricelli; LA, Sen. Boxer5 filingsthrough 2014
Alexander VogelVogelhood, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist4 filingsthrough 2017
Jacob Harry HampleThe Vogel Group3 filingsthrough 2019
Emily KleckThe Vogel Group2 filingsthrough 2023
Kristin SmithVogelhood, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Denny Rehberg
Legislative Assistant, Sen. Olympia Snowe
Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Conrad Burns1 filingthrough 2017
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Policy; General Counsel ; ; and Policy Director, House Republican Conference1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 20 of 25 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
