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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
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: ascension-health-alliance.
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.
26 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
13 filings
$720K on those filings
Insurance
INS
6 filings
$310K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$60K 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
Lower Health Care Costs Act
7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 247119th CongressHealth Care Affordability Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2840118th CongressBipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20206 filingsthrough 2020
S. 46119th CongressHealth Care Affordability Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5378118th CongressLower Costs, More Transparency Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2543116th CongressPrescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 297113th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1852112th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 958112th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3561118th CongressPATIENT Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 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.
James E. ClyburnD-South Carolina-AL
Bills: H.R. 20, H.R. 247, H.R. 6929
156 filings
6 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.
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy71 filingsthrough 2026
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus53 filingsthrough 2021
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 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
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 Committee33 filingsthrough 2026
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill30 filingsthrough 2026
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Slaughter29 filingsthrough 2019
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
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln25 filingsthrough 2015
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist22 filingsthrough 2014
Alexander PerkinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, (Senator Ron Wyden), Trade Counsel (Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade)21 filingsthrough 2026
Rosemary GutierrezMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: DEP COS, LEG DIR, Senator Cantwell; Prof staff, US Small Business Comm; Foreign Affairs Leg. Asst., Sen. Harkin21 filingsthrough 2026
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)21 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary MalloveMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, LA, Leg. Aide (Senator Murray); Leg. Aide, Joint Comm on Deficit Reduc.20 filingsthrough 2026
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Prof Staff, House Cmte on Homeland Security19 filingsthrough 2014
Sohini GuptaMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health and Social Policy Counsel, Sen. Bayh18 filingsthrough 2018
Victoria D FloodMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Policy Advisor and LA (Sen. Capito); Staff Assist. (Cong. Capito)16 filingsthrough 2025
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Representative Xavier Becerra; Director of Legislation and Communication, Representative Xavier Becerra; Press Secretary, Representative Xavier Becerra16 filingsthrough 2022
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
Michael CollinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Tom Udall Legislative Director, Senator Tom Udall Legislative Director, Representative Tom Udall Legislative Assistant, Representative Tom Udall Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Tom Udall14 filingsthrough 2018
Brian WildMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Leg Assistant, Sen. Hank Brown14 filingsthrough 2014
Mckenzie BriceMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondence Manager, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jim Webb13 filingsthrough 2022
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley12 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 46 of 51 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
