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: national-beer-wholesalers-association.
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.
CON
87 filings
$18.7M on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
86 filings
$19M on those filings
Postal
POS
76 filings
$17.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
75 filings
$18.7M on those filings
Retirement
RET
69 filings
$19.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
52 filings
$15M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
45 filings
$13.3M on those filings
Banking
BAN
44 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
44 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
44 filings
$8.9M 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
United States Postal Service Shipping Equity Act
15 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1706118th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act14 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 736119th CongressProtect Small Businesses from Excessive Paperwork Act of 202513 filingsthrough 2026
S. 505119th Congress‘Protect Small Businesses from Excessive Paperwork Act of 202513 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4721118th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act13 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4121119th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 202611 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 703119th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act11 filingsthrough 2026
S. 187119th CongressALIGN Act11 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.
Laurie KnightNational Beer Wholesalers Association
Bryan CunninghamPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: LC Sen. Gregg; Intern, Sen. Bennett; Policy Advsr & LA, Sen Ensign; LA Rep LoBiondo.44 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick RaffanielloRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster25 filingsthrough 2016
Eric BunningNational Beer Wholesalers AssociationCovered position: Senior LA, Rep. Andy Barr20 filingsthrough 2022
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Dir, Sen. Majority Leader Frist; Staff Dir, ; ; Sen Subcmte on Public Health; Maj Health Pol Counsel, House ; ; Cmte on Ways & Means, Subcmte on Health; Health Policy ; ; Coordinator & Counsel, Sen Cmte on Labor & Human Res ; ; Counsel & Prof Staff, Sen Cmte on Labor & Human Res, ; ; Subcmte on Disability Policy; Case Worker, Rep. R. Boschwitz19 filingsthrough 2015
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Lofgren; Dir of Congressional Rels, FTC ; ; Dep Dir of Leg Affairs, VP Gore; Staff Asst, Sen. Metzenbaum19 filingsthrough 2015
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Ex Dir, House Republican Policy Cmte; Chief of Staff, ; ; Rep. John Shadegg, LA, Rep. Dannemeyer; LD, Rep. Bartlett19 filingsthrough 2015
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Chief of Staff, Rep ; ; Norm Mineta; EA, Rep. Ed Markey19 filingsthrough 2015
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Policy; General Counsel ; ; and Policy Director, House Republican Conference19 filingsthrough 2015
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Blanche Lincoln18 filingsthrough 2015
Michael Williams JohnsonNational Beer Wholesalers Association18 filingsthrough 2013
Eric BunningEb ConsultingCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant - Rep. Andy Barr15 filingsthrough 2026
Brian WildMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Office of Speaker John Boehner ; ; Deputy Assistant for Leg Affairs, VP Cheney ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pat Toomey ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Hank Brown14 filingsthrough 2014
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Slaughter13 filingsthrough 2015
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Majority Leader Frist12 filingsthrough 2014
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Prof Staff Member, House Cmte on Homeland Security12 filingsthrough 2014
Stacey RampyMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Rep. Eshoo; LA, Sen. Torricelli; LA, Sen. Boxer11 filingsthrough 2014
Sohini GuptaMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health and Social Policy Counsel, Sen. Bayh8 filingsthrough 2015
Susan ZookMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. Bill Shuster8 filingsthrough 2015
Will StoneDenny Miller AssociatesCovered position: N/A8 filingsthrough 2010
Dean ThomasNational Beer Wholesalers Association8 filingsthrough 2010
