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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
295 filings
$13.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
224 filings
$10.5M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 465 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act12 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 763113th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.11 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4626111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Kathy E. ManningD-North Carolina-AL
Bills: H.Con.Res. 13, H.R. 1139, H.R. 20 +7 more
516 filings
8 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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: americas-health-insurance-plans.
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.
MMM
107 filings
$9M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
55 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Insurance
INS
43 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
8 filings
$590K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
6 filings
$450K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
4 filings
$360K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$50K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$300K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
2 filings
$120K 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.
10 filings
through 2010
H.R. 3363110th CongressLong-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 200710 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2096111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2415118th CongressPreventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1868117th CongressTo prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2166117th CongressEnsuring Parity in MA and PACE for Audio-Only Telehealth Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 150117th CongressEnsuring Parity in MA for Audio-Only Telehealth Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 928114th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3367113th CongressTo amend section 9010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to delay the application of the health insurance provider annual fee until 2016 and to provide a process to return to consumers any amounts attributable to the expected application of the annual fee to 2014 or 2015.8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 603113th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4074117th CongressAddressing Social Determinants in Medicare Advantage Act of 20217 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.
Tompkins Strategies, LLC
Covered position: Senior Legislative Officer, US Department of Labor 2002-2003
62 filingsthrough 2026
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Frist53 filingsthrough 2026
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus51 filingsthrough 2021
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 Camp42 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel P MeyerThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Asst. to President,Legis.Affairs, Pres. GW Bush37 filingsthrough 2019
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
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
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Bob Franks; Leg Assistant, Rep. Hal Rogers; Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Staff Assistant, Rep. Bud Shuster28 filingsthrough 2023
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Slaughter28 filingsthrough 2019
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. Bartlett28 filingsthrough 2016
Steven ChamplinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: ExecFlrAsst, H. Maj. Whip; ExecDir, H.DemCauc.26 filingsthrough 2016
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln25 filingsthrough 2015
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist21 filingsthrough 2014
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: US Senate Republican floor Assistant; US Senate--Assistant Secretary for the Majority; US Senate--Secretary for the Majority/Secretary for the Minority19 filingsthrough 2019
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Prof Staff, House Cmte on Homeland Security18 filingsthrough 2014
Sohini GuptaMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health and Social Policy Counsel, Sen. Bayh17 filingsthrough 2018
Rosemary GutierrezMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dep COS, Leg Dir (Senator Cantwell); Prof staff, US Small Business Comm; Foreign Affairs Leg. Asst., Sen. Harkin16 filingsthrough 2026
Eric UelandThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Sen.Maj.Ldr; AsstCOS/COS, Sen.Maj.Ldr.16 filingsthrough 2013
Caitlin Van SantMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, Leg Dir, Interim COS (Rep. Butterfield)15 filingsthrough 2026
Lisa GoldmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Counsel, House Comm on Energy & Commerce; Chief Counsel, Sr Counsel (E&C Subcommittee on Consumer Protection & Commerce); Counsel House Comm on E&C15 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle NevinsHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader 11-13; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor 09-10; Floor Director, Rep. Roy Blunt 07-08; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt 03-0615 filingsthrough 2019
Steve StombresHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief DeputyMajorityWhip04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-0315 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 47 of 59 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
