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: general-aviation-manufacturers-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.
BUD
105 filings
$12.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
57 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
32 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
25 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
19 filings
$760K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
14 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
12 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
10 filings
$400K on those filings
Banking
BAN
9 filings
$608K on those filings
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$655K 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.
114th Congress
Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2016
10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20249 filingsthrough 2024
S. 866118th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1339117th CongressAdvanced Air Mobility Coordination and Leadership Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2673118th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1304117th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3969116th CongressAircraft Safety and Certification Reform Act of 20207 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 658112th CongressFAA Modernization and Reform Act of 20127 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2881110th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
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 Rosen
Mehlman 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. Boschwitz
36 filingsthrough 2026
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 Metzenbaum36 filingsthrough 2026
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. Bartlett36 filingsthrough 2026
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy;
General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference36 filingsthrough 2026
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 Camp36 filingsthrough 2026
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 McCarthy36 filingsthrough 2026
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 Shuster36 filingsthrough 2026
Heideh ShahmoradiO'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee35 filingsthrough 2026
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 Committee32 filingsthrough 2026
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats;
Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg;
General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole32 filingsthrough 2025
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill30 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee29 filingsthrough 2017
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Asst Counsel, House Transp. and Infrastructure Committee (Asst. Counsel, Hse Transp & Infrastructure Committee)29 filingsthrough 2017
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 Daschle28 filingsthrough 2026
Marc EhudinGeneral Aviation Manufacturers Association27 filingsthrough 2026
James O'KeeffeO'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; Senior Analyst for Transportation, Senate Budget Committee25 filingsthrough 2025
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Asst. Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US DoT; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Staff Asst., Office of Senator Mark Dayton23 filingsthrough 2017
Alexander PerkinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, (Senator Ron Wyden), Trade Counsel (Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade)21 filingsthrough 2026
Rosemary GutierrezMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: DEP COS, LEG DIR, Senator Cantwell; Prof staff, US Small Business Comm; Foreign Affairs Leg. Asst., Sen. Harkin21 filingsthrough 2026
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)21 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary MalloveMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, LA, Leg. Aide (Senator Murray); Leg. Aide, Joint Comm on Deficit Reduc.20 filingsthrough 2026
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus;
Chief of Staff, Rep. Norm Mineta;
EA, Rep. Ed Markey18 filingsthrough 2021
Mark CopelandO'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Tammy Duckworth; Legislative Director, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier; and Legislative Director, Congressman Tim Bishop.17 filingsthrough 2025
Victoria D FloodMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Policy Advisor and LA (Sen. Capito); Staff Assist. (Cong. Capito)16 filingsthrough 2025
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Representative Xavier Becerra; Director of Legislation and Communication, Representative Xavier Becerra; Press Secretary, Representative Xavier Becerra16 filingsthrough 2022
Caitlin Van SantMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, Leg Dir, Interim COS (Rep. Butterfield)15 filingsthrough 2026
Lisa GoldmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Counsel, House Comm on Energy & Commerce; Chief Counsel, Sr Counsel (E&C Subcommittee on Consumer Protection & Commerce); Counsel House Comm on E&C15 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 63 of 86 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
