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.
Government Issues
GOV
16 filings
$780K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
9 filings
$200K on those filings
Retirement
RET
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 3175112th CongressSave More Tomorrow Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3175113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2013
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Pol Dir (Senate Maj Ldr Frist); Staff Dir (Senate Pub. Health SC); Maj Health Pol Csl (House Ways/Means C, Health SC); Health Pol Coord & Csl (Senate Labor/HR C); Csl & Prof Staff (Senate Labor/HR C, Disab Pol SC); Case Wkr (Rep. Boschwitz)17 filingsthrough 2025
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Rep. Lofgren); Dir of Congressional Relations (FTC); Dep Dir for Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Staff Asst (Sen. Metzenbaum)17 filingsthrough 2025
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Exec Dir (House Repub Pol C); CoS (Rep. Shadegg); LA (Rep. Dannemeyer); LD (Rep. Bartlett)17 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: ariel-investments.
fees reported
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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.
9 filings
$200K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$50K 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.
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Pol; General Csl & Pol Dir (House Repub Conf)
17 filingsthrough 2025
Sage EastmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Strategy Dir, Dep Staff Dir (Maj), Sr Adv (House Ways/Means C); Comm Dir (Rep. Camp)17 filingsthrough 2025
Lauren AronsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dir (Office of Legis, CMS); Prof Staff Mem, (House Ways/Means C); Pol Dir (White House); Pol Dir (HHS Office of Health Reform-detailed to White House); Pol Adv (Rep. Emanuel); Health LA (Rep. McCarthy)17 filingsthrough 2025
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Mem Svcs & Coalitions Dir (House Approp C); Pol Adv/Dep CoS (House Maj Ldr DeLay); LD (Rep. Rogers); Sr LA (Rep. Regula); Sr LA (Rep. Franks); LA (Rep. Rogers); Special Proj Asst (House Trans/Infra C); Staff Asst (Rep. Shuster)17 filingsthrough 2025
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Sen. Coats); Csl/LD (Sen. Gregg); General Csl (Sen. Dole)17 filingsthrough 2025
Helen TolarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Sen. Boozman); Staff Dir/Chief Csl - House VA C (Rep. Miller); Prof Staff/Csl - Senate VA C (Sen. Craig); Csl/LD (Rep. Miller); LA (Rep. Miller); Scheduler (Rep. Miller); Law Clerk (House Trans/Infra C)17 filingsthrough 2025
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Sr Csl, Csl (Sen. McCaskill); Assoc Admin, Dep Assoc Admin, Sr Adv (Office of Cong & Intergvt Relations, EPA)17 filingsthrough 2025
Paul ThornellMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dep Dir of Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Assoc Dir-Senate Dem Steering C (Sen. Daschle)17 filingsthrough 2025
Stephen M. CoteMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Staff Dir/Shrd Emp(House Fin Srvs/McHenry), Staff Dir, Dpt. Staff Dir, Sr. Pro Staff, Asst to L. Diaz Balart (House Rules), Pol Coord Maj (House Homeland), Assoc Dir, Dpty Assoc. Dir (OMB), CoS-DC, LD, LA (L Diaz Balart), LA, Staff Asst (Sen C. Mack)17 filingsthrough 2025
Alexander PerkinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, (Senator Ron Wyden), Trade Counsel (Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade)16 filingsthrough 2025
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 2025
Zachary MalloveMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, LA, Leg. Aide (Senator Murray); Leg. Aide, Joint Comm on Deficit Reduc.15 filingsthrough 2025
Victoria D FloodMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Policy Advisor and LA (Sen. Capito); Staff Assist. (Cong. Capito)15 filingsthrough 2024
Caitlin Van SantMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, Leg Dir, Interim COS (Rep. Butterfield)10 filingsthrough 2025
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&C10 filingsthrough 2025
Robert RabenThe Raben GroupCovered position: Asst. Attorney Gen, DOJ; Counsel House Judiciary10 filingsthrough 2013
Alyene MlinarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Pol Adv (Maj Leader Scalise); Pol Adv (Min Whip Scalise); Pol Adv (House Oversight/Govt Reform Comm); Prof Staff Member (Ways and Means Subcom on Health/Brady), Pol Adv (Sen Rep Policy Comm/Barrasso); Leg Asst (Senator Ben Sasse)6 filingsthrough 2025
Erica Jay ChabotMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst, Leg Corres, Asst Schd, Asst to COS, Press Asst, Dep Press Sec, Leg Dir (Senator Patrick Leahy); Prof Staff (Sen Approp Comm); LD (Sen Pres Pro Temp Emeritus); Dep COS (Senate Consult); Staff Dir (Sen Ag Comm)6 filingsthrough 2025
Mckenzie BriceMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Health Pol Adv (Sen. Hassan); Pol Adv, LA, Leg.Aide/LC Manager, LC (Sen. Reid); LC (Sen. Webb)5 filingsthrough 2022
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Sen. Feinstein); Asst Sec of Commerce for Leg & Intergovt Affairs; CoS (Sen. Heinrich); CoS (Rep. Heinrich); Sr Adv (Rep. Becerra); Dir of Legis & Comm (Rep. Becerra); Press Sec (Rep. Becerra)5 filingsthrough 2022
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2021
Annie WolfMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dep Floor Dir (Maj Leader Scalise); CoS (Chief Dep Min Whip Ferguson); Dep Floor Dir (Min Whip Scalise); Prof Staff (House Rules/Sessions); Floor Asst (Speakers Ryan & Boehner); Staff Asst (Speaker Boehner); Intern (Rep. Sullivan)3 filingsthrough 2025
Naveen ParmarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel (Sen. Hickenlooper); General Counsel (House Comm on Sm Bus/Velazquez); Tax Counsel, (House Comm on Sm Bus/Velazquez); Economic Policy Counsel (Sen. Amy Klobuchar); Ways and Means Counsel (Rep. Lloyd Doggett)3 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 25 of 29 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
