Electronic Retailing Association — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Electronic Retailing Association
Virginia
70 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Aug 6, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.1M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$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.
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: electronic-retailing-association.
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.
CSP
15 filings
$422K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
12 filings
$460K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
11 filings
$420K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
7 filings
$212K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
2 filings
$65K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$40K 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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2045111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 215111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 34111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2701112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.Res. 95112th CongressSupporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small businesses.3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1452112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3386111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2790114th CongressFinancial Institution Customer Protection Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Frist27 filingsthrough 2016
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus27 filingsthrough 2016
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln25 filingsthrough 2015
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist21 filingsthrough 2014
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Prof Staff, House Cmte on Homeland Security18 filingsthrough 2014
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Bob Franks; Leg Assistant, Rep. Hal Rogers; Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Staff Assistant, Rep. Bud Shuster5 filingsthrough 2016
Michael CollinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Tom Udall Legislative Director, Senator Tom Udall Legislative Director, Representative Tom Udall Legislative Assistant, Representative Tom Udall Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Tom Udall5 filingsthrough 2016
Karin HudsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Asst. Sen. Chris Dodd3 filingsthrough 2008
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats; Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg; General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole1 filingthrough 2016
Kelly VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln1 filingthrough 2008
Barbara TulipaneElectronic Retailing AssociationCovered position: none1 filingthrough 2008
Kelly BingelElectronic Retailing AssociationCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln1 filingthrough 2008
Bruce MehlmanElectronic Retailing AssociationCovered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy1 filingthrough 2008
Karin HudsonElectronic Retailing AssociationCovered position: Legislative Asst. Sen. Chris Dodd1 filingthrough 2008
Jamie BrownElectronic Retailing AssociationCovered position: Special Asst. to President for Leg. Affairs1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 35 of 37 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
