60 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jan 20, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$3.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.4M
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.
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: corrections-corporation-of-america.
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.
BUD
22 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
12 filings
$700K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$440K 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
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015
3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2437113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2534113th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5326112th CongressDepartment of Justice Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2787113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20142 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1329113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20142 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3607111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3636111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 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.
18 filings
through 2014
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC18 filingsthrough 2013
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Majority Leader Frist17 filingsthrough 2014
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Prof Staff Member, House Cmte on Homeland Security17 filingsthrough 2014
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Dir, Sen. Majority Leader Frist; 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. Boschwitz16 filingsthrough 2014
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. Metzenbaum16 filingsthrough 2014
Stacey RampyMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Rep. Eshoo; LA, Sen. Torricelli; LA, Sen. Boxer16 filingsthrough 2014
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Chief of Staff, Rep ; ; Norm Mineta; EA. Rep. David Markey16 filingsthrough 2014
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Policy; General Counsel ; ; and Policy Director, House Republican Conference16 filingsthrough 2014
Gary L SiscoSisco Consulting, LLC13 filingsthrough 2011
Brian WildMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Hank Brown11 filingsthrough 2014
Cynthia BrownMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bart Stupark10 filingsthrough 2012
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, US House of Rep.10 filingsthrough 2011
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLC8 filingsthrough 2014
Jonathan Russell HogansonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Policy Director, House Democratic Caucus ; ; Leg Dir, Rep. Rahm Emanuel8 filingsthrough 2012
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley; LA, Sen. Chafee7 filingsthrough 2011
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLC6 filingsthrough 2013
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 Mack6 filingsthrough 2011
