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: forging-industry-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.
TAX
34 filings
$655K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
22 filings
$480K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
18 filings
$390K on those filings
Defense
DEF
15 filings
$420K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$165K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$130K on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$70K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$20K 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
Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1105114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 427114th CongressRegulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 597114th CongressExport-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4808113th CongressCoal Country Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 803113th CongressWorkforce Innovation and Opportunity Act2 filingsthrough 2014
H.J.Res. 103112th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board relating to representation election procedures.2 filingsthrough 2012
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, 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, Representative R. Boschwitz
11 filingsthrough 2021
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Zoe Lofgren;
Director of Congressional Relations, FTC;
Deputy Director for Legislative Affairs, Vice President Gore;
Staff Assistant, Senator Metzenbaum11 filingsthrough 2021
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, House Republican Policy Committee;
Chief of Staff, Representative John Shadegg;
Legislative Assistant, Representative Dannemeyer;
Legislative Director, Representative Bartlett11 filingsthrough 2021
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus;
Chief of Staff, Representative Norm Mineta;
EA, Representative Ed Markey11 filingsthrough 2021
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy;
General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference11 filingsthrough 2021
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, Representative Dave Camp11 filingsthrough 2021
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, Representative Rahm Emanuel;
Health LA, Representative Carolyn McCarthy11 filingsthrough 2021
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Member Services and Coalitions Director, House Appropriations Committee;
Policy Advisor/Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader/Representative Tom DeLay;
Legislative Director, Representative Hal Rogers;; Senior Legislative Assistant, Representative Ralph Regula;
Senior Legislative Assistant, Representative Bob Franks;
Legislative Assistant, Representative Hal Rogers;; Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee;
Staff Assistant, Representative Bud Shuster11 filingsthrough 2021
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats;
Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg;
General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole11 filingsthrough 2021
Helen TolarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator John Boozman;
Staff Director/Chief Counsel, House Veterans Affairs Committee (Representative Jeff Miller);
Professional Staff/Counsel, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (Senator Larry Craig);; Counsel/Legislative Director, Representative Jeff Miller;
Legislative Assistant, Representative Jeff Miller;
Scheduler, Representative Jeff Miller;
Law Clerk, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee11 filingsthrough 2021
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dianne Feinstein;
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs;
Chief of Staff, Senator Martin Heinrich;
Chief of Staff, Representative Martin Heinrich;; Senior Advisor, Representative Xavier Becerra;
Director of Legislation and Communication, Representative Xavier Becerra;
Press Secretary, Representative Xavier Becerra11 filingsthrough 2021
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill10 filingsthrough 2021
Mckenzie BriceMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondence Manager, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jim Webb9 filingsthrough 2021
Omar NashashibiInside the Beltway Solutions, LLC8 filingsthrough 2026
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 Daschle8 filingsthrough 2021
Steven WolfeStrategic Marketing Innovations6 filingsthrough 2026
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 Slaughter5 filingsthrough 2019
Adrielle Churchill WieseStrategic Marketing InnovationsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Office of Congressman Steve Womack Legislative Director, Office of Congressman Steve Womack4 filingsthrough 2023
Stephen CoffeyStrategic Marketing InnovationsCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Congressman Matt Cartwright3 filingsthrough 2024
Spencer BellForging Industry AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant2 filingsthrough 2026
Alexander PerkinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, (Senator Ron Wyden), Trade Counsel (Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade)1 filingthrough 2021
Rosemary GutierrezMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: DEP COS, LEG DIR, Senator Cantwell; Prof staff, US Small Business Comm; Foreign Affairs Leg. Asst., Sen. Harkin1 filingthrough 2021
Stephen M. CoteMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Staff Dir/Shrd Emp(House Fin Srvs/McHenry), Staff Dir, Dpt. Staff Dir, Sr. Pro Staff, Asst to L. Diaz Balart (House Rules), Pol Coord Maj (House Homeland), Assoc Dir, Dpty Assoc. Dir (OMB), CoS-DC, LD, LA (L Diaz Balart), LA, Staff Asst (Sen C. Mack)1 filingthrough 2021
Victoria D FloodMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Policy Advisor and LA (Sen. Capito); Staff Assist. (Cong. Capito)1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 22 of 30 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
