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.
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: blackberry-corporation.
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.
11 filings
$440K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
9 filings
$340K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
5 filings
$230K on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$20K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$150K 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.
110th Congress
Patent Reform Act of 2007
7 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1722111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 707111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3125111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 649111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 891111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3101111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1000110th CongressTelework Enhancement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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.
27 filingsthrough 2014
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus;27 filingsthrough 2014
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy;27 filingsthrough 2014
Scott Nicholas FleschMiller & Chevalier, Chtd6 filingsthrough 2026
Susan ZookMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. Bill Shuster6 filingsthrough 2014
Karin HudsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Chris Dodd5 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffery WalterCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Projects Director for Senator Alfonse D'AmatoSpecial Projects Director for Senator Connie MackDeputy Staff Director of the Joint Economic Committee4 filingsthrough 2013
Sohini GuptaMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health and Social Policy Counsel, Sen. Bayh3 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 18 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
