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.
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. Boschwitz47 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 Metzenbaum47 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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: association-of-accessible-medicines.
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.
41 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
32 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
11 filings
$660K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
5 filings
$145K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
3 filings
$160K 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.
115th Congress
FAST Generics Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1348115th CongressStopping the Pharmaceutical Industry from Keeping Drugs Expensive (SPIKE) Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 775118th CongressIncreasing Transparency in Generic Drug Applications Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 938116th CongressBLOCKING Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act6 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2543116th CongressPrescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2212115th CongressCREATES Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1948115th CongressA bill to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes as a defense in inter partes review of patents.6 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1040119th CongressDrug Competition Enhancement Act5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1954119th CongressBiosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20255 filingsthrough 2024
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.
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.
Elise Finley Pickering
Mehlman Consulting, Inc.
Covered position: Executive Director, House Republican Policy Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. John Shadegg; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dannemeyer; Legislative Director, Rep. Bartlett
47 filingsthrough 2026
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy; General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference47 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 Camp47 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 McCarthy47 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 Shuster47 filingsthrough 2026
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats; Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg; General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole40 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 Committee35 filingsthrough 2026
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill32 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 Daschle30 filingsthrough 2026
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Chief of Staff, Rep. Norm Mineta; EA, Rep. Ed Markey27 filingsthrough 2021
Alexander PerkinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, (Senator Ron Wyden), Trade Counsel (Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade)23 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. Harkin23 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)23 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary MalloveMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, LA, Leg. Aide (Senator Murray); Leg. Aide, Joint Comm on Deficit Reduc.22 filingsthrough 2026
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Chris Van Hollen; Director of Member Services, Office of the Assistant to the Speaker; Chief of Staff, Rep. Louise Slaughter19 filingsthrough 2019
Victoria D FloodMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Policy Advisor and LA (Sen. Capito); Staff Assist. (Cong. Capito)18 filingsthrough 2025
Caitlin Van SantMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, Leg Dir, Interim COS (Rep. Butterfield)17 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&C17 filingsthrough 2026
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
Sohini GuptaMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health and Social Policy Counsel, Senator Bayh14 filingsthrough 2018
Michael CollinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Tom UdallLegislative Director, Senator Tom UdallLegislative Director, Representative Tom UdallLegislative Assistant, Representative Tom UdallStaff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Tom Udall14 filingsthrough 2018
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)13 filingsthrough 2026
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)13 filingsthrough 2026
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
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)10 filingsthrough 2026
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)10 filingsthrough 2026
