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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
58 filings
$2M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
44 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6833117th CongressContinuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Shadegg; Exec. Dir. RPC59 filingsthrough 2023
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Frist42 filingsthrough 2019
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: environmental-resources-management.
CAW
40 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$400K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$120K 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.
1 filingthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.1 filingthrough 2021
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.
23 filingsthrough 2014
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Lofgren21 filingsthrough 2013
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus21 filingsthrough 2013
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln20 filingsthrough 2013
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill18 filingsthrough 2023
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Prof Staff, House Cmte on Homeland Security18 filingsthrough 2013
Brian WildMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Hank Brown15 filingsthrough 2014
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Representative Xavier Becerra; Director of Legislation and Communication, Representative Xavier Becerra; Press Secretary, Representative Xavier Becerra13 filingsthrough 2022
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley13 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan Russell HogansonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Rahm Emanuel12 filingsthrough 2012
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats; Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg; General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole11 filingsthrough 2019
Jamie BrownMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to President for Leg. Affairs11 filingsthrough 2011
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy10 filingsthrough 2010
Rosemary GutierrezMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: DEP COS, LEG DIR, Senator Cantwell; Prof staff, US Small Business Comm; Foreign Affairs Leg. Asst., Sen. Harkin9 filingsthrough 2023
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Chris Van Hollen; Director of Member Services, Office of the Assistant to the Speaker; Chief of Staff, Representative Louise Slaughter8 filingsthrough 2019
Susan ZookMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. Bill Shuster8 filingsthrough 2015
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Staff Assistant, Representative Bud Shuster4 filingsthrough 2019
Karin HudsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Asst. Sen. Chris Dodd3 filingsthrough 2008
Kelly VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 23 of 24 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
