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.
Kyle NevinsHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader 11-13; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor 09-10; Floor Director, Rep. Roy Blunt 07-08; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt 03-06.28 filingsthrough 2026
Steve StombresHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief DeputyMajorityWhip04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-03.28 filingsthrough 2026
Manny RossmanHarbinger Strategies, LLC Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip 07-09; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Sen. Trent Lott 05-06; Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Crane 03-04; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Phil Crane 01-02.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 102 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: maplebear-inc-d-b-a-instacart.
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.
SCI
31 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
29 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
21 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$790K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$870K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$540K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
1 filing
$250K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$10K 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.
117th Congress
Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021
6 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 6338117th CongressSNAP PLUS Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4258117th CongressCompetition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5724117th CongressWhite House Conference on Food, Nutrition, Hunger, and Health Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8152117th CongressAmerican Data Privacy and Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2992117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Choice Online Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3195117th CongressConsumer Online Privacy Rights Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7567119th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
S. 3892119th CongressStop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act of 20262 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.
Covered position:
28 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan SlemrodHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Legislative Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, '17-'18, Policy Advisor, Office of the Sen. Republican Whip, '12-'17, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Marco Rubio '11-'12.28 filingsthrough 2026
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader27 filingsthrough 2026
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader27 filingsthrough 2026
Belinda Garza HartwigMaplebear Inc. D/B/A Instacart22 filingsthrough 2026
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. Boschwitz10 filingsthrough 2021
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 Metzenbaum10 filingsthrough 2021
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 Bartlett10 filingsthrough 2021
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus;
Chief of Staff, Representative Norm Mineta;
EA, Representative Ed Markey10 filingsthrough 2021
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy;
General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference10 filingsthrough 2021
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, Representative Dave Camp10 filingsthrough 2021
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 McCarthy10 filingsthrough 2021
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 Shuster10 filingsthrough 2021
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats;
Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg;
General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole10 filingsthrough 2021
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 Committee10 filingsthrough 2021
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 McCaskill10 filingsthrough 2021
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 Webb10 filingsthrough 2021
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 Daschle10 filingsthrough 2021
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 Becerra10 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 35 of 45 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
