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.
Health Issues
HCR
16 filings
$410K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
15 filings
$400K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2117116th CongressFASTER Act of 20205 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2430115th CongressFDA Reauthorization Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Senate Majority Leader Frist;
Staff Director, Senate Subcommittee on Public Health;
Majority Health Policy Counsel, House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health; Health Policy Coordinator and Counsel, Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources;
Counsel and Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Labor & Human Resources, Subcommittee on Disability Policy;
Case Worker, Rep. R. Boschwitz18 filingsthrough 2020
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Zoe Lofgren;
Director of Congressional Relations, FTC;
Deputy Director for Legislative Affairs, VP Gore;
Staff Assistant, Senator Metzenbaum18 filingsthrough 2020
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, House Republican Policy Committee;
Chief of Staff, Rep. John Shadegg;
Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dannemeyer;
Legislative Director, Rep. Bartlett
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: food-allergy-research-education-fare.
13 filings
$340K 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.
S. 3451116th CongressFASTER Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
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 filingsthrough 2020
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus;
Chief of Staff, Rep. Norm Mineta;
EA, Rep. Ed Markey18 filingsthrough 2020
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy;
General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference18 filingsthrough 2020
Sage EastmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Strategy Director, Committee on Ways & Means;
Deputy Staff Director (Majority), Committee on Ways & Means;
Senior Advisor, Committee on Ways & Means;
Communications Director, Rep. Dave Camp18 filingsthrough 2020
Lauren AronsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Director, Office of Legislation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Professional Staff Member, Committee on Ways & Means;
Policy Director, White House;
Policy Director, HHS Office of Health Reform (detailed to the White House);; Policy Advisor, Rep. Rahm Emanuel;
Health LA, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy18 filingsthrough 2020
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Member Services and Coalitions Director, House Appropriations Committee;
Policy Advisor/Dep. Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader/Rep.Tom DeLay;
Leg Dir, Rep. Hal Rogers;
Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Ralph Regula;; Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Bob Franks;
Leg Assistant, Rep. Hal Rogers;
Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee;
Staff Assistant, Rep. Bud Shuster18 filingsthrough 2020
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats;
Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg;
General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole18 filingsthrough 2020
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Chris Van Hollen;
Director of Member Services, Office of the Assistant to the Speaker;
Chief of Staff, Rep. Louise Slaughter16 filingsthrough 2019
Sohini GuptaMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health and Social Policy Counsel, Senator Bayh11 filingsthrough 2018
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 Udall11 filingsthrough 2018
Helen TolarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel/Legislative Director, Representative Jeff Miller; Legislative Assistant, Representative Jeff Miller; Scheduler, Representative Jeff Miller; Law Clerk, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee8 filingsthrough 2020
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Representative Xavier Becerra; Director of Legislation and Communication, Representative Xavier Becerra; Press Secretary, Representative Xavier Becerra8 filingsthrough 2020
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill6 filingsthrough 2020
Mckenzie BriceMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondence Manager, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jim Webb5 filingsthrough 2020
Paul ThornellMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, Office of Vice President Al Gore, The White House; Associate Director, Senate Democratic Steering Committee, Senator Tom Daschle4 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 17 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
