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.
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
3 filings
$160K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
3 filings
$160K on those filings
Housing
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
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 (Senator Metzenbaum)4 filingsthrough 2024
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Rep. Lofgren); Dir of Congressional Relations (FTC); Dep Dir for Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Staff Asst (Senator Metzenbaum)4 filingsthrough 2024
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Pol; General Csl & Pol Dir (House Repub Conf)4 filingsthrough 2024
Stephen M. Cote
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: california-forever-llc.
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.
HOU
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
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.
Mehlman 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)
4 filingsthrough 2024
Yasmin NelsonHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA, Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Kamala Harris; Tax Policy Analyst, Sen. Finance Committee; LA, Sen. Debbie Stabenow; Staff Asst., Sen. Cory Booker2 filingsthrough 2026
Sara PetersHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Deputy Staff Dir., Budget Dir., Counsel, House Cmte. on Appropriations; Dep. Dir., Govt Affairs, Policy, & Strategic Planning, NHTSA; Professional Staff Member, Subcmte on THUD, House Cmte. on Appropriations; Leg. Counsel, Sen. Thad Chochran2 filingsthrough 2026
Karl KochHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Davis1 filingthrough 2026
Lauri Anne HettingerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA & Staff Director, Sen. George Voinovich; LA, Sen. Norm Coleman; LA & Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Strom Thurmond1 filingthrough 2026
Michael FriedbergHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Rail Subcmte., House Transp. & Infrastructure Cmte.; Professional Staff, House Appropriations Cmte.1 filingthrough 2026
Kara FischerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Government Affairs, USDOT; Acting Deputy Staff Director, Senior Counsel, Subcmte. Staff Director, Senate Commerce Committee1 filingthrough 2026
Helen TolarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Senator Boozman); Staff Dir/Chief Csl - House VA C (Rep. Miller); Prof Staff/Csl - Senate VA C (Senator Craig); Csl/LD (Rep. Miller); LA (Rep. Miller); Scheduler (Rep. Miller); Law Clerk (House Trans/Infra C)1 filingthrough 2024
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Sr Csl, Csl (Senator McCaskill); Assoc Admin, Dep Assoc Admin, Sr Adv (Office of Cong & Intergvt Relations, EPA)1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 12 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
