29 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Feb 12, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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: merck-and-co-inc.
fees reported
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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.
TAX
16 filings
$780K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
8 filings
$390K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$330K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
1 filing
$50K 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.
110th Congress
Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1082110th CongressFood and Drug Administration Revitalization Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 301111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2029110th CongressPhysician Payments Sunshine Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3101110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 512114th CongressDISARM Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1919113th CongressSafeguarding America's Pharmaceuticals Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1893110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
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.
21 filingsthrough 2013
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus21 filingsthrough 2013
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist21 filingsthrough 2013
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy21 filingsthrough 2013
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln20 filingsthrough 2013
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Prof Staff, House Cmte on Homeland Security18 filingsthrough 2013
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley12 filingsthrough 2011
