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.
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 Metzenbaum35 filingsthrough 2024
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. Bartlett35 filingsthrough 2024
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy; General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference
The filings
The 20 most recent of 203 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: hp-inc.
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
84 filings
$42.2M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
74 filings
$40.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
71 filings
$47.1M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
64 filings
$44.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
53 filings
$37M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
51 filings
$33M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
48 filings
$44.7M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
45 filings
$37M on those filings
Education
EDU
43 filings
$43.9M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
39 filings
$6.7M 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.
118th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024
11 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 202411 filingsthrough 2024
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 2018.11 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1457116th CongressSUPPLY CHAIN Act of 201910 filingsthrough 2020
S. 893116th CongressSecure 5G and Beyond Act of 202010 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1174114th CongressLaw Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad Act10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1560114th CongressTo improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance multi-directional sharing of information related to cybersecurity risks and strengthen privacy and civil liberties protections, and for other purposes.10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1704114th CongressPersonal Data Notification and Protection Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2374114th CongressDetectives Nemorin, Andrews and Moore Anti-Gun Trafficking Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 37114th CongressPromoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act10 filingsthrough 2016
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.
35 filingsthrough 2024
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 Camp35 filingsthrough 2024
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 Shuster35 filingsthrough 2024
Randolph V DoveHp Inc.34 filingsthrough 2017
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats; Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg; General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole32 filingsthrough 2024
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Chief of Staff, Rep. Norm Mineta; EA, Rep. Ed Markey25 filingsthrough 2021
Mark TombHp Inc.25 filingsthrough 2015
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 Committee24 filingsthrough 2024
Omar FrancoBecker & Poliakoff, P.A.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart23 filingsthrough 2025
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill22 filingsthrough 2024
Brittany MasalosaloHp Inc.Covered position: Special Advisor to the National Security Advisor, Office of the Vice President 2016-201821 filingsthrough 2026
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Assistant to Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB21 filingsthrough 2019
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce21 filingsthrough 2019
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 Daschle20 filingsthrough 2024
James Quentin ScholtzHp Inc.Covered position: Legislative staffer, Office of Sen. McConnell19 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher BerardiniBecker & Poliakoff, P.A.19 filingsthrough 2025
Amy BurkeHp Inc.17 filingsthrough 2025
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 Slaughter17 filingsthrough 2019
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 McCarthy15 filingsthrough 2023
Loren PondsMiller & Chevalier, ChtdCovered position: House Ways and Means Committee Majority Tax Counsel15 filingsthrough 2022
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Representative Xavier Becerra; Director of Legislation and Communication, Representative Xavier Becerra; Press Secretary, Representative Xavier Becerra15 filingsthrough 2022
Jorge CastroMiller & Chevalier, ChtdCovered position: Tax & Trade Counsel, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones; Senior Counsel, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV14 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 64 of 102 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
