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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Housing
HOU
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4912110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the treatment of prepaid derivative contracts.2 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senate Subcmte on Public Health; Majority Health Policy7 filingsthrough 2009
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Zoe Lofgren; Dir of Congressional Rels,7 filingsthrough 2009
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: credit-suisse-securities-usa-formerly-filed-as-credit-suisse.
2 filings
$80K 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.
Covered position:
7 filingsthrough 2009
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Senator Max Baucus; Chief of Staff,7 filingsthrough 2009
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist7 filingsthrough 2009
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy;7 filingsthrough 2009
Jamie BrownMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to President for Legislative Affairs; Acting7 filingsthrough 2009
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley; LA, Sen. Chafee7 filingsthrough 2009
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln6 filingsthrough 2009
Karin HudsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LA, Sen. Chris Dodd4 filingsthrough 2008
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Prof Staff, House Cmte on Homeland Securit3 filingsthrough 2009
Jonathan Russell HogansonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Rahm Emanuel3 filingsthrough 2009
Kelly VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 14 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
