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-venture-capital-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.
SCI
115 filings
$38M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
113 filings
$40.8M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
113 filings
$39.8M on those filings
Banking
BAN
112 filings
$38.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
87 filings
$42.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
58 filings
$30.8M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
55 filings
$30.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
49 filings
$14.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
37 filings
$14.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
27 filings
$3.6M 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.
116th Congress
Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2019
19 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.18 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1639116th CongressEnding the Carried Interest Loophole Act16 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1935111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.16 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2225117th CongressNational Science Foundation for the Future Act15 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3826117th CongressPlatform Competition and Opportunity Act of 202115 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4043117th CongressEnsuring Patient Access to Critical Breakthrough Products Act of 202115 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1598117th CongressCarried Interest Fairness Act of 202115 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4227117th CongressDeveloping and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders Act of 202213 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2617117th CongressEnding the Carried Interest Loophole Act13 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 202112 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.12 filingsthrough 2018
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.
through 2026
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel & Policy Director, House Republican Conference68 filingsthrough 2026
Bobby FranklinNational Venture Capital Association59 filingsthrough 2026
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Norm Mineta; EA, Rep. Ed Markey50 filingsthrough 2021
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Bob Franks; Leg Assistant, Rep. Hal Rogers; Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Staff Assistant, Rep. Bud Shuster44 filingsthrough 2026
Mary B KuusistoProskauer Rose LLP44 filingsthrough 2019
Justin FieldNational Venture Capital Association43 filingsthrough 2023
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats; Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg; General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole36 filingsthrough 2025
Helen TolarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel/Legislative Director, Representative Jeff Miller; Legislative Assistant, Representative Jeff Miller; Scheduler, Representative Jeff Miller; Law Clerk, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee32 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey FarrahNational Venture Capital Association31 filingsthrough 2022
Emily BakerNational Venture Capital Association31 filingsthrough 2015
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill30 filingsthrough 2026
William Robert DavisCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director and Tax Policy Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed29 filingsthrough 2026
Charlotte SavercoolNational Venture Capital Association29 filingsthrough 2023
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 Daschle28 filingsthrough 2026
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Slaughter28 filingsthrough 2019
Kelly SloneNational Venture Capital Association28 filingsthrough 2015
Lawrence WillcoxCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Dir., Senate Republican Policy Committee; Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Sen. Jon Kyl; Tax Counsel, Rep. Sam Johnson.24 filingsthrough 2022
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Blanche Lincoln24 filingsthrough 2015
Jennifer DowlingNational Venture Capital Association24 filingsthrough 2014
Charles M BrainCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Asst. to the President, Dp.Chief Staff W&M Cmte24 filingsthrough 2014
A. J. WojciakCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Senior Legislative Asst., Cong. Earl Pomeroy24 filingsthrough 2014
Jonas MurphyNational Venture Capital Association23 filingsthrough 2025
Alexander PerkinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, (Senator Ron Wyden), Trade Counsel (Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade)21 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. Harkin21 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 75 of 111 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
