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.
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
36 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
25 filings
$1.8M 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.
H.R. 7443118th CongressCombating Transnational Repression Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4330116th CongressTRAP Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2020
Bilal EksiliNational Council on Civil Advocacy25 filingsthrough 2026
Tom QuinnLsn Partners, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director/Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/StaffAssistant, Congressman Peter Visclosky17 filingsthrough 2025
Jose A FuentesLsn Partners, LLCCovered position: Communications Director, USAID; Press Office, USAID; Deputy Directorfor Advance, Office of the Vice President; Lead Advance Representative,Office of the Vice President, Transition Staff, U.S. Department of Defense17 filingsthrough 2025
Brian Thomas McguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP Asst Sec. for Legis. Affairs, Treasury; Counselor, Treasury; COS, Sen McConnell; Acting Staff Dir, R Comm Center, Sen McConnell; Dep Com Dir, Sen McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, Sen McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, HUD
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 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: national-council-on-civil-advocacy.
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
117th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
1 filingthrough 2021
S. 2792117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20221 filingthrough 2021
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:
7 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph Brady HowellBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Treas., Leg. Aff., Sr Adv.; H. For. Aff. Comm., Rep Royce, Asst. Staff Dir., Pol. An., Spec. Asst.; H. Admin. Comm., Rep Miller, Int.; H. For. Aff. Comm., Eur./Eurasia Sub., Rep Burton, Prof. Staff, Rep./Policy Adv., Assoc., Rep.; Rep Burton, Int.7 filingsthrough 2026
John ReisingBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Scheduler, Operations Director, Member Services Director, Deputy Chief of Staff- Majority Leader Steve Scalise; Operations Director, Rep. Bill Flores; Scheduler, Rep. Austin Scott; Intern, Senator Trent Lott.6 filingsthrough 2026
Edward Randall RoyceBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Representative, U.S. House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2025
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Sen. Coats); Csl/LD (Sen. Gregg); General Csl (Sen. Dole)3 filingsthrough 2021
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Sen. Feinstein); Asst Sec of Commerce for Leg & Intergovt Affairs; CoS (Sen. Heinrich); CoS (Rep. Heinrich); Sr Adv (Rep. Becerra); Dir of Legis & Comm (Rep. Becerra); Press Sec (Rep. Becerra)3 filingsthrough 2021
Thomas WotkaBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP2 filingsthrough 2025
Douglas MaguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP1 filingthrough 2025
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Pol Dir (Senate Maj Ldr Frist); Staff Dir (Senate Pub. Health SC); Maj Health Pol Csl (House Ways/Means C, Health SC); Health Pol Coord & Csl (Senate Labor/HR C); Csl & Prof Staff (Senate Labor/HR C, Disab Pol SC); Case Wkr (Rep. Boschwitz)1 filingthrough 2021
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 (Sen. Metzenbaum)1 filingthrough 2021
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Exec Dir (House Repub Pol C); CoS (Rep. Shadegg); LA (Rep. Dannemeyer); LD (Rep. Bartlett)1 filingthrough 2021
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.1 filingthrough 2021
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Pol; General Csl & Pol Dir (House Repub Conf)1 filingthrough 2021
Sage EastmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Strategy Dir, Dep Staff Dir (Maj), Sr Adv (House Ways/Means C); Comm Dir (Rep. Camp)1 filingthrough 2021
Lauren AronsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dir (Office of Legis, CMS); Prof Staff Mem, (House Ways/Means C); Pol Dir (White House); Pol Dir (HHS Office of Health Reform-detailed to White House); Pol Adv (Rep. Emanuel); Health LA (Rep. McCarthy)1 filingthrough 2021
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)1 filingthrough 2021
Helen TolarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Sen. Boozman); Staff Dir/Chief Csl - House VA C (Rep. Miller); Prof Staff/Csl - Senate VA C (Sen. Craig); Csl/LD (Rep. Miller); LA (Rep. Miller); Scheduler (Rep. Miller); Law Clerk (House Trans/Infra C)1 filingthrough 2021
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Sr Csl, Csl (Sen. McCaskill); Assoc Admin, Dep Assoc Admin, Sr Adv (Office of Cong & Intergvt Relations, EPA)1 filingthrough 2021
Mckenzie BriceMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Health Pol Adv (Sen. Hassan); Pol Adv, LA, Leg.Aide/LC Manager, LC (Sen. Reid); LC (Sen. Webb)1 filingthrough 2021
Paul ThornellMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dep Dir of Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Assoc Dir-Senate Dem Steering C (Sen. Daschle)1 filingthrough 2021
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)1 filingthrough 2021
Neil OhlhausenLsn Partners, LLC1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 21 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
