49 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2017 · latest filed Oct 20, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$2.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.1M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Christopher JavensCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel,Sen. Grassley, Sen. Finance Comm.25 filingsthrough 2017
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Dir, Sen. Majority Leader First; Staff Dir, ; ; Sen Subcmte on Public Health; Maj Health Pol Counsel, House ; ; Cmte on Ways & Means, Subcmte on Health; Health Policy ; ; Coordinator & Counsel, Sen Cmte on Labor & Human Res ; ; Counsel & Prof Staff, Sen Cmte on Labor & Human Res, ; ; Subcmte on Disability Policy; Case Worker, Rep. R. Boschwitz23 filingsthrough 2014
The filings
The 20 most recent of 49 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: biogen-idec-inc.
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
20 filings
$1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$600K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
1 filing
$30K 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.
113th Congress
Manufacturing Innovation in America Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1417113th CongressNewborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2091112th CongressUnited States Job Creation and International Tax Reform Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1427111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1548111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1038110th CongressAccess to Life-Saving Medicine Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1956110th CongressPatient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 726111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4113th CongressJobs for America Act2 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4464113th CongressPermanent CFC Look-Through Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
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.
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Lofgren; Dir of Congressional Rels, FTC ; ; Dep Dir of Leg Affairs, VP Gore; Staff Asst, Sen. Metzenbaum
23 filingsthrough 2014
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Blanche Lincoln23 filingsthrough 2014
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Ex Dir, House Republican Policy Cmte; Chief of Staff, ; ; Rep. John Shadegg, LA, Rep. Dannemeyer; LD, Rep. Bartlett23 filingsthrough 2014
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Chief of Staff, Rep Norm ; ; Mineta; EA, Rep. David Markey23 filingsthrough 2014
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Policy; General Counsel ; ; and Policy Director, House Republican Conference23 filingsthrough 2014
Jonathan Russell HogansonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Policy Director, House Democratic Caucus ; ; Leg Dir, Rep. Rahm Emanuel12 filingsthrough 2012
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley; LA, Sen. Chafee10 filingsthrough 2011
Jamie BrownMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Spec Asst to President for Leg Affairs ( G.W. Bush); Acting ; ; Asst AG for Leg Affairs, DoJ; Leg Counsel, Sen. Connie Mack9 filingsthrough 2011
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Slaughter8 filingsthrough 2014
Susan ZookMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. Bill Shuster6 filingsthrough 2014
Jonathan TalismanCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy6 filingsthrough 2012
Nick LittlefieldFoley Hoag LLP5 filingsthrough 2008
