60 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Mar 20, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$2.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.4M
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: energy-future-holdings-corp.
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.
CAW
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$210K on those filings
Banking
BAN
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$180K 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
Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
Andrew LundquistBluewater Strategies15 filingsthrough 2012
Thomas MichelsBluewater StrategiesCovered position: L.A. & Leg. Dir., Sen. Mary Landrieu12 filingsthrough 2016
Richard Kyle OliverBluewater Strategies9 filingsthrough 2016
Jonathan BirdsongBluewater StrategiesCovered position: Leg. Dir., Cong. Mike Thompson9 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. Boschwitz9 filingsthrough 2011
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. Metzenbaum9 filingsthrough 2011
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Ex Dir, House Republican Policy Cmte; Chief of Staff, ; ; Rep. John Shadegg, LA, Rep. Dannemeyer; LD, Rep. Bartlett9 filingsthrough 2011
Stacey RampyMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Rep. Eshoo; LA, Sen. Torricelli; LA, Sen. Boxer9 filingsthrough 2011
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Chief of Staff, Rep Norm ; ; Mineta; EA, Rep. David Markey9 filingsthrough 2011
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Majority Leader Frist9 filingsthrough 2011
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Policy; General Counsel ; ; and Policy Director, House Republican Conference9 filingsthrough 2011
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley; LA, Sen. Chafee9 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan Russell HogansonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Policy Director, House Democratic Caucus ; ; Leg Dir, Rep. Rahm Emanuel9 filingsthrough 2011
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 Mack8 filingsthrough 2011
Kelly Rucker BingelMustang Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff for former U.S. Sen. Lincoln7 filingsthrough 2016
