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.
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 Metzenbaum5 filingsthrough 2021
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 Bartlett5 filingsthrough 2021
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 50 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: north-fund.
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.
GOV
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Constitution
CON
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$20K 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
For the People Act of 2021
1 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 1116th CongressFor the People Act of 20191 filingthrough 2020
S. 4263116th CongressJohn Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act1 filingthrough 2020
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: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus;
Chief of Staff, Representative Norm Mineta;
EA, Representative Ed Markey
5 filingsthrough 2021
Lauren AronsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dir. Office of Legislation Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Profess. Staff Member Committee on Ways & Means; Policy Dir. White House; Policy Dir. HHS Office of Health Reform; Policy Advisor Rep. R. Emanuel; Health LA, Rep. C. McCarthy5 filingsthrough 2021
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Mem. Serv. & Coal. Dir. House Approp. Comm.; Policy Adv./Dep. COS House Maj. Ldr./Rep. T. DeLay; Leg. Dir. & LA Rep. H. Rogers; Sr. LA Rep. R. Regula; Sr. LA Rep. B. Franks; Spcl. Proj. Asst. House Transp. & Infra. Comm.; Staff Asst. Rep. B. Shuster5 filingsthrough 2021
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director Sen. C. McCaskill; Associate Administrator, Deputy Associate Administrator and Sr. Advisor Office of Congressional & Intergovernmental Relations U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Sr. Counsel and Counsel Sen. C. McCaskill5 filingsthrough 2021
Mckenzie BriceMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Health Policy Advisor, Senator Maggie Hassan; Policy Advisor, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondence Manager Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jim Web5 filingsthrough 2021
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 Daschle5 filingsthrough 2021
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: COS Sen. D. Feinstein; Asst Secy of Commerce for Legislative & Intergovernmental Affairs; COS Sen. M. Heinrich; COS Rep. M. Heinrich; Sr. Advisor, Director of Legislation & Communication and Press Secy Rep. X. Becerra5 filingsthrough 2021
Luke AlbeeBlue Mountain StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Leahy; Chief of Staff, Mark Warner; Staff, Governor Dukakis.4 filingsthrough 2022
Mia WoodardNorth FundCovered position: Senate Select Committee Investigative Counsel; House Staff Assistant2 filingsthrough 2021
Elizabeth NollHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary for House Congressional Affairs, US Department of Energy1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 12 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
