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.
Health Issues
HCR
10 filings
$352K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
10 filings
$352K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3800110th CongressPromoting Health Information Technology Act5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1693110th CongressWired for Health Care Quality Act5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4371111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Frist11 filingsthrough 2011
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Shadegg; Exec. Dir. RPC11 filingsthrough 2011
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist11 filingsthrough 2011
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-college-of-cardiologists.
spend on filings that named this issue
4 filings
through 2010
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3101110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3188110th CongressA bill for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of top-of-the-stove stainless steel cooking ware from the Republic of Korea, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 85111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4851111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
11 filingsthrough 2011
Jamie BrownMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to President for Leg. Affairs11 filingsthrough 2011
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley11 filingsthrough 2011
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Lofgren6 filingsthrough 2009
