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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
J. D. VanceR-Ohio
Bills: S. 1250, S. 1409, S. 1421 +17 more
335 filings
7 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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-restaurant-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.
FOO
130 filings
$53.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
126 filings
$53.7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
112 filings
$42.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
73 filings
$33.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
67 filings
$31M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
60 filings
$37.8M on those filings
Banking
BAN
52 filings
$30.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
43 filings
$32.2M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
41 filings
$8M on those filings
Education
EDU
40 filings
$29.5M 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
17 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 875113th CongressTo provide for a comprehensive assessment of the scientific and technical research on the implications of the use of mid-level ethanol blends, and for other purposes.17 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 603117th CongressRaise the Wage Act of 202116 filingsthrough 2022
S. 53117th CongressRaise the Wage Act of 202116 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1265112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.16 filingsthrough 2012
S. 687112th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.16 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3622110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the treatment of qualified restaurant property as 15-year property for purposes of the depreciation deduction.15 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 20118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 202314 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1838118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 202314 filingsthrough 2024
S. 567118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 202314 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3807117th CongressRelief for Restaurants and other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act of 202214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 201314 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Mehlman 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. Boschwitz
54 filingsthrough 2026
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 Metzenbaum54 filingsthrough 2026
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 Bartlett54 filingsthrough 2026
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy;
General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference54 filingsthrough 2026
Charles L MerinPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A42 filingsthrough 2018
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 Camp36 filingsthrough 2026
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus;
Chief of Staff, Representative Norm Mineta;
EA, Representative Ed Markey35 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 McCarthy34 filingsthrough 2026
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 Shuster33 filingsthrough 2026
Charles J MellodyCapitol Legislative Strategies LLCCovered position: Assistant to the Chairman, Ways and Means33 filingsthrough 2022
Keith SmithPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2001-2002 Director, Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, International Trade Administration, United States Department of Commerce32 filingsthrough 2019
Mark DislerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A31 filingsthrough 2019
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 Committee30 filingsthrough 2026
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: 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 McCaskill ; Legislative Director, Senator Claire McCaskill;
Associate Administrator, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;30 filingsthrough 2026
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 Daschle30 filingsthrough 2026
Jenna Morgan HamiltonCapitol Legislative Strategies LLC30 filingsthrough 2022
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats;
Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg;
General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole26 filingsthrough 2025
Sean D. KennedyNational Restaurant AssociationCovered position: Special Asst., Legis. Affairs, President Obama; Chief of Staff, Sen. McCaskill, Legis. Director, Rep. Gephardt23 filingsthrough 2026
Michael MchughUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Gordon Smith23 filingsthrough 2022
Alexander PerkinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, (Senator Ron Wyden), Trade Counsel (Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade)22 filingsthrough 2026
Rosemary GutierrezMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: DEP COS, LEG DIR, Senator Cantwell; Prof staff, US Small Business Comm; Foreign Affairs Leg. Asst., Sen. Harkin22 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 115 of 166 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
