Job Creators Network — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Job Creators Network
Texas
42 filings from 3 registrants · 2016–2026 · latest filed Jun 28, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
42 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
31 filings
$866K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 76 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.Con.Res. 14119th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.9 filingsthrough 2026
Sage EastmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Strategy Dir, Dep Staff Dir (Maj), Sr Adv (House Ways/Means C); Comm Dir (Rep. Camp)26 filingsthrough 2022
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. Boschwitz17 filingsthrough 2020
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 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: job-creators-network.
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.
FIN
23 filings
$469K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
20 filings
$477K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$157K on those filings
Education
EDU
13 filings
$157K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
13 filings
$157K on those filings
Unemployment
UNM
13 filings
$157K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
7 filings
$120K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$120K on those filings
Constitution
CON
7 filings
$120K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$37K 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.
119th Congress
Prove It Act
9 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1199119th CongressSmall Business Investment Act of 20259 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1295119th CongressReorganizing Government Act of 20259 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 425119th CongressRepealing Big Brother Overreach Act9 filingsthrough 2026
S. 100119th CongressRepealing Big Brother Overreach Act9 filingsthrough 2026
S. 495119th CongressProve It Act of 20259 filingsthrough 2026
S. 583119th CongressReorganizing Government Act of 20259 filingsthrough 2026
S. 695119th CongressSmall Business Investment Act of 20259 filingsthrough 2026
S. 832119th CongressEPIC Act of 20259 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.8 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3174119th CongressMade in America Manufacturing Finance Act8 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4119th CongressRescissions Act of 20258 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4178119th CongressEnforce the Caps Act8 filingsthrough 2026
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 R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Zoe Lofgren;
Director of Congressional Relations, Federal Trade Commission;
Deputy Director for Legislative Affairs, Vice President Gore;
Staff Assistant, Senator Metzenbaum17 filingsthrough 2020
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 Bartlett17 filingsthrough 2020
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus;
Chief of Staff, Representative Norm Mineta;
EA, Representative Ed Markey17 filingsthrough 2020
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy;
General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference17 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, Representative Rahm Emanuel;
Health LA, Representative Carolyn McCarthy17 filingsthrough 2020
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 Shuster17 filingsthrough 2020
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats;
Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg;
General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole14 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 Slaughter13 filingsthrough 2018
Sohini GuptaMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health and Social Policy Counsel, Senator Bayh12 filingsthrough 2018
Michael CollinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Tom UdallLegislative Director, Senator Tom UdallLegislative Director, Representative Tom UdallLegislative Assistant, Representative Tom UdallStaff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Tom Udall12 filingsthrough 2018
David BockornyBockorny Group, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2019
Blair C LarkinsBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Assistant to Rep. Greg Walden (06-10); Staff Assistant to Rep. Greg Walden (05-06)9 filingsthrough 2019
Martin DepoyBockorny Group, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2019
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 Committee6 filingsthrough 2020
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 Becerra6 filingsthrough 2020
Allen Jones JamersonBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Special Assistant - Majority Leader Eric Cantor (13-14); Staff Assistant - Chairman Bob Goodlatte (14-15); Legislative Clerk - Chairman Bob Goodlatte (15-16); Senior Legislative Clerk - Chairman Bob Goodlatte (16)5 filingsthrough 2018
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Senator Claire McCaskill;
Associate Administrator, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;; Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;
Senior Advisor, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;; Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill;
Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill4 filingsthrough 2020
Mckenzie BriceMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Health Policy Advisor, Senator Maggie Hassan; Policy Advisor, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Assistant, Senator Harry Reid;; Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondence Manager, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jim Webb4 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
Spencer PedersonBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. George Radanovich (05-10); Communications Director, Rep. George Radanovich (07-10); Press Secretary, House Natural Resources Committee (10-13); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Tim Scott (13-17)2 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 21 of 24 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
