55 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 20, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3M
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: hewlett-packard-company.
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.
CPI
28 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
25 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
24 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
9 filings
$506K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
8 filings
$460K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$410K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
5 filings
$290K 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.
113th Congress
Innovation Act
5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 85111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1096111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 138111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1580111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 19111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 422111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 662111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 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.
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus27 filingsthrough 2015
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy27 filingsthrough 2015
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln25 filingsthrough 2015
Karin HudsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Asst. Sen. Chris Dodd3 filingsthrough 2008
Lauren AronsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: 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 McCarthy2 filingsthrough 2015
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Bob Franks; Leg Assistant, Rep. Hal Rogers; Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Staff Assistant, Rep. Bud Shuster1 filingthrough 2015
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 Udall1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 26 of 33 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
