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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
67 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
3 filings
$100K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 4003119th CongressSecuring Accountability in Foreign Entries Act1 filingthrough 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.
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative Hefley, Legislative Aide; U.S. Representative Watkins, Legislative Director16 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: livingston-international-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.
spend on filings that named this issue
through 2018
Megan MaloneVenable LLP12 filingsthrough 2014
Ariel WolfVenable LLP11 filingsthrough 2014
Jeffrey G WeissVenable LLPCovered position: Associate Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, The White House; Senior Director, Technical Barriers to Trade, Office of the USTR; Assistant General Counsel, Office of the USTR9 filingsthrough 2020
Carrie Anne KrollVenable LLP9 filingsthrough 2016
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Rep. Lofgren); Dir of Congressional Relations (FTC); Dep Dir for Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Staff Asst (Senator Metzenbaum)7 filingsthrough 2026
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Exec Dir (House Repub Pol C); CoS (Rep. Shadegg); LA (Rep. Dannemeyer); LD (Rep. Bartlett)7 filingsthrough 2026
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Pol; General Csl & Pol Dir (House Repub Conf)7 filingsthrough 2026
Sage EastmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Strategy Dir, Dep Staff Dir (Maj), Sr Adv (House Ways/Means C); Comm Dir (Rep. Camp)7 filingsthrough 2026
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Mem Svcs & Coalitions Dir (House Approp C); Pol Adv/Dep CoS (House Maj Ldr DeLay); LD (Rep. Rogers); Sr LA (Rep. Regula); Sr LA (Rep. Franks); LA (Rep. Rogers); Special Proj Asst (House Trans/Infra C); Staff Asst (Rep. Shuster)7 filingsthrough 2026
Helen TolarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Senator Boozman); Staff Dir/Chief Csl - House VA C (Rep. Miller); Prof Staff/Csl - Senate VA C (Senator Craig); Csl/LD (Rep. Miller); LA (Rep. Miller); Scheduler (Rep. Miller); Law Clerk (House Trans/Infra C)7 filingsthrough 2026
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Sr Csl, Csl (Senator McCaskill); Assoc Admin, Dep Assoc Admin, Sr Adv (Office of Cong & Intergvt Relations, EPA)7 filingsthrough 2026
Paul ThornellMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dep Dir of Legis. Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Assoc Dir-Senate Dem Steering Comm (Senator Daschle)7 filingsthrough 2026
Alexander PerkinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, (Senator Ron Wyden), Trade Counsel (Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade)7 filingsthrough 2026
Rosemary GutierrezMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dep COS, Leg Dir (Senator Cantwell); Prof staff, US Small Business Comm; Foreign Affairs Leg. Asst., (Senator Harkin)7 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)7 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary MalloveMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Pol Adv, LA, Leg. Aide (Senator Murray); Leg. Aide, Joint Comm on Deficit Reduc.7 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&C7 filingsthrough 2026
Erica Jay ChabotMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Staff Dir (Sen Ag Comm); Dep COS (Senate Consult); LD (Sen Pres Pro Temp Emeritus); Prof Staff (Sen Approp Comm); Leg Dir, Dep Press Sec, Press Asst, Asst to COS, Asst Schd, Leg Corres, Staff Asst, (Senator Patrick Leahy)7 filingsthrough 2026
Annie WolfMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dep Floor Dir (Maj Leader Scalise); CoS (Chief Dep Min Whip Ferguson); Dep Floor Dir (Min Whip Scalise); Prof Staff (House Rules/Sessions); Floor Asst (Speakers Ryan & Boehner); Staff Asst (Speaker Boehner); Intern (Rep. Sullivan)7 filingsthrough 2026
Naveen ParmarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel (Sen. Hickenlooper); General Counsel (House Comm on Sm Bus/Velazquez); Tax Counsel, (House Comm on Sm Bus/Velazquez); Economic Policy Counsel (Sen. Amy Klobuchar); Ways and Means Counsel (Rep. Lloyd Doggett)7 filingsthrough 2026
JOSEPH EDWARD BROWN iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Prof Staff (EPW Comm Maj/Sen. Moore Capito); Prof Staff (EPW Comm Min/Ranking Mem Sen. Moore Capito); Leg Asst (Sen. Boozman); Maj Leg Asst (EPW Comm Maj/Sen. Jim Inhofe); Maj Research Asst (EPW Comm Maj/Sen. Jim Inhofe); Intern (Rep. Jim Renacci)4 filingsthrough 2026
Douglas S KantorSteptoe LLP4 filingsthrough 2020
Allison NyholmSteptoe LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Lisa Murkowski4 filingsthrough 2020
Jeffrey G. WeissSteptoe LLPCovered position: Asst. Leg. Adv. U.S. Mission to the WTO (2001-2004); Asst. Gen. Counsel/Sr. Dir. USTR (2004-2011); Assoc. Admin. OMB (2011-2013); Dep. Dir. U.S. DoC (2013-2017)4 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 24 of 32 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
