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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
73 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Housing
HOU
73 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 84 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.30 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2511117th CongressRevitalizing Downtowns Act19 filingsthrough 2022
Kate DickensS-3 GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, US Sen Mark Kirk; Leg Director, Rep Mike Castle; Foreign Policy Adv, Rep. Connie Morella20 filingsthrough 2024
Kevin CaseyS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Pol Dir, Dem Caucus; Counselor, Leg. Dir, Leg. Asst, Rep. Joseph Crowley; Staff Asst, Leg. Correspondent, Rep. Bob Weygand20 filingsthrough 2024
Ryan EatonRock Central19 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 85 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: rock-central.
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.
43 filings
$8.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
28 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
13 filings
$650K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$520K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
10 filings
$460K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$430K 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
Main Street Tax Certainty Act
15 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2143117th CongressNeighborhood Homes Investment Act15 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1077117th CongressPermanently Preserving America’s Investment in Manufacturing Act15 filingsthrough 2022
S. 480117th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act15 filingsthrough 2022
S. 749117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act15 filingsthrough 2022
S. 98117th CongressNeighborhood Homes Investment Act15 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4549117th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 202214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1059118th CongressSECURE Notarization Act of 202312 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1165118th CongressData Privacy Act of 202312 filingsthrough 2024
S. 657118th CongressNeighborhood Homes Investment Act12 filingsthrough 2024
S.Con.Res. 14118th CongressA concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress supporting the State of Israel.11 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act9 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Megan Cummings HansenRock Central
19 filingsthrough 2024
Hilary HalpernRock CentralCovered position: Operations manager/Policy staff for Senator Rounds19 filingsthrough 2024
Matt BravoS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Floor Operations for Maj. Whip Steve Scalise; Prof Staff, E&C; Floor Asst to Maj. Leader Eric Cantor16 filingsthrough 2024
Chris BrownMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, House Financial Services Committee16 filingsthrough 2024
Olivia KurtzS-3 GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Leg Director, Dep Leg Director, Sr Leg Asst, US Sen Susan Collins; Dep Staff Dir, Sen Special Comm on Aging; Leg Director, Sr Leg Asst, Leg Asst, Exec Asst, Rep Mike Castle15 filingsthrough 2024
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)14 filingsthrough 2024
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)14 filingsthrough 2024
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Exec Dir (House Repub Pol C); CoS (Rep. Shadegg); LA (Rep. Dannemeyer); LD (Rep. Bartlett)14 filingsthrough 2024
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Pol; General Csl & Pol Dir (House Repub Conf)14 filingsthrough 2024
Jay GhazalGhazal & Associates, LLC14 filingsthrough 2024
Sage EastmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Strategy Dir, Dep Staff Dir (Maj), Sr Adv (House Ways/Means C); Comm Dir (Rep. Camp)14 filingsthrough 2024
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)14 filingsthrough 2024
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)14 filingsthrough 2024
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Sen. Coats); Csl/LD (Sen. Gregg); General Csl (Sen. Dole)14 filingsthrough 2024
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)14 filingsthrough 2024
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)14 filingsthrough 2024
Paul ThornellMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Dep Dir of Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Assoc Dir-Senate Dem Steering C (Sen. Daschle)14 filingsthrough 2024
Nana NyaninRock Central14 filingsthrough 2024
Michael LongS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Member Services, Senior Advisor for SpeakerNancy Pelosi; Dep. Floor Director and Advisor, Dem Leader Nancy Pelosi; Special Asst and Staff Asst for Speaker Nancy Pelosi14 filingsthrough 2024
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)14 filingsthrough 2024
Jose CeballosS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Special Assistant to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Confidential Assistant, Office of the Secretary, Business Liaison, Dept of Commerce14 filingsthrough 2024
Daniel J GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. McMillan; COS, Rep Riley; LD, Rep Martini; Sr LA, Rep. Franks.13 filingsthrough 2024
Bryan CunninghamPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: LC Sen. Gregg; Intern, Sen. Bennett; Policy Advsr & LA, Sen Ensign; LA Rep LoBiondo.13 filingsthrough 2024
Jon GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Dpty CoS & Policy Dir-Sen.Kyl/GOP Whip Ofc; Policy Cnsl-Sen Kyl/GOP Whip Ofc; Dpty Assoc Dir (Senate), OMB, Leg. Aff; Policy Cnsl/Analyst-Sen Kyl/Sen Rep Plcy Cmte; Leg.Cnsl, Rep Frelinghuysen; Law Clerk-DoT Amtrak Reform Cnsl; Intern-Rep Hefley.13 filingsthrough 2024
Alexander PerkinsMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Counsel, (Senator Ron Wyden), Trade Counsel (Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade)13 filingsthrough 2024
Rosemary GutierrezMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: DEP COS, LEG DIR, Senator Cantwell; Prof staff, US Small Business Comm; Foreign Affairs Leg. Asst., Sen. Harkin13 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 44 of 50 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
