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-trucking-associations.
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.
TRU
103 filings
$38.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
101 filings
$38.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
96 filings
$38.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
87 filings
$38.1M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
69 filings
$37.3M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
69 filings
$37.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
46 filings
$20.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
21 filings
$680K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
17 filings
$9.6M on those filings
Torts
TOR
17 filings
$7.5M 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.
118th Congress
Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act
11 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.10 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 659117th CongressDRIVE Safe Act8 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Jonathan SamsonAmerican Trucking AssociationsCovered position: L.A. for Sen. Max Baucus; Senate Finance Cmte
56 filingsthrough 2025
Henry O. HanscomAmerican Trucking Associations50 filingsthrough 2026
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Senate Majority Leader Frist;
Staff Director, Senate Subcommittee on Public Health;
Majority Health Policy Counsel, House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health; Health Policy Coordinator and Counsel, Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources;
Counsel and Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Labor & Human Resources, Subcommittee on Disability Policy;
Case Worker, Rep. R. Boschwitz45 filingsthrough 2026
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Zoe Lofgren;
Director of Congressional Relations, FTC;
Deputy Director for Legislative Affairs, VP Gore;
Staff Assistant, Senator Metzenbaum45 filingsthrough 2026
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, House Republican Policy Committee;
Chief of Staff, Rep. John Shadegg;
Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dannemeyer;
Legislative Director, Rep. Bartlett45 filingsthrough 2026
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy;
General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference45 filingsthrough 2026
Sage EastmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Strategy Director, Committee on Ways & Means;
Deputy Staff Director (Majority), Committee on Ways & Means;
Senior Advisor, Committee on Ways & Means;
Communications Director, Rep. Dave Camp45 filingsthrough 2026
Lauren AronsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Director, Office of Legislation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
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 McCarthy45 filingsthrough 2026
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Member Services and Coalitions Director, House Appropriations Committee;
Policy Advisor/Dep. Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader/Rep.Tom DeLay;
Leg Dir, Rep. Hal Rogers;
Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Ralph Regula;; Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Bob Franks;
Leg Assistant, Rep. Hal Rogers;
Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee;
Staff Assistant, Rep. Bud Shuster45 filingsthrough 2026
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats
Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg
General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole37 filingsthrough 2025
Michael RobinsonAmerican Trucking Associations35 filingsthrough 2011
Edwin J GilroyAmerican Trucking AssociationsCovered position: Director of Workforce Policy Committee on Education and the Workforce U.S. House of Representatives, from November 2001 to September 201734 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas J KeatingThe Ob-C Group, LLC33 filingsthrough 2022
Robert G StevensonThe Ob-C Group, LLC33 filingsthrough 2022
Robert H MarshThe Ob-C Group, LLC33 filingsthrough 2022
Patricia A NelsonThe Ob-C Group, LLC33 filingsthrough 2022
Lawrence F O'Brien, IiiThe Ob-C Group, LLC33 filingsthrough 2022
Heideh ShahmoradiO'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee32 filingsthrough 2026
Helen TolarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel/Legislative Director, Representative Jeff Miller; Legislative Assistant, Representative Jeff Miller; Scheduler, Representative Jeff Miller; Law Clerk, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee32 filingsthrough 2026
William SullivanAmerican Trucking AssociationsCovered position: US Senator Lamar Alexander; Projects Director US Dept of Justice, Justice Management Division; Appropriations Liaison US Senator Richard Shelby; Legislative Director32 filingsthrough 2024
Timothy P LynchAmerican Trucking Associations32 filingsthrough 2010
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill30 filingsthrough 2026
Paul ThornellMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, Office of Vice President Al Gore, The White House; Associate Director, Senate Democratic Steering Committee, Senator Tom Daschle28 filingsthrough 2026
David HeilThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff Congressman Sam Johnson28 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 74 of 112 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
