25 filings from 3 registrants · 2013–2019 · latest filed Aug 19, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$305K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$305K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Health Issues
HCR
23 filings
$225K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
5 filings
$180K 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. 1565113th CongressPublic Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 649113th CongressSafe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
Andrew L WoodsLiberty Partners Group, LLC18 filingsthrough 2019
Eric S BergerLiberty Partners Group, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff, House Energy and Commerce CMTE8 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew CoatsLiberty Partners Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mark Souder7 filingsthrough 2016
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Dir, Sen. Majority Leader Frist; Staff Dir, ; ; Cmte on Ways & Means, Subcmte on Health; Health Policy ; ; Coordinator & Counsel, Sen Cmte on Labor & Human Res ; ; Counsel & Prof Staff, Sen Cmte on Labor & Human Res, ; ; Subcmte on Disability Policy; Case Worker, Rep. R. Boschwitz
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: sandy-hook-promise.
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
113th Congress
Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013
2 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.
6 filingsthrough 2014
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Lofgren; Dir of Congressional Rels, FTC ; ; Dep Dir of Leg Affairs, VP Gore; Staff Asst, Sen. Metzenbaum6 filingsthrough 2014
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Blanche Lincoln6 filingsthrough 2014
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Ex Dir, House Republican Policy Cmte; Chief of Staff, ; ; Rep. John Shadegg; LA, Rep. Dannemeyer; LD, Rep. Bartlett6 filingsthrough 2014
Stacey RampyMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Rep. Eshoo; LA, Sen. Torricelli; LA, Sen. Boxer6 filingsthrough 2014
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Chief of Staff, Rep ; ; Norm Mineta; EA, Rep. Ed Markey6 filingsthrough 2014
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Majority Leader Frist6 filingsthrough 2014
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Policy; General Counsel ; ; and Policy Director, House Republican Conference6 filingsthrough 2014
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Prof Staff Member, House Cmte on Homeland Security6 filingsthrough 2014
Brian WildMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Office of Speaker John Boehner ; ; Deputy Assistant for Leg Affairs, VP Cheney ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pat Toomey ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Hank Brown6 filingsthrough 2014
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Chris Van Hollen; Director of Member ; ; Services, Office of the Assistant to the Speaker; Chief of ; ; Staff, Rep. Louise Slaughter6 filingsthrough 2014
JOHN FRANCIS WILLIAMS iiiHall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.Covered position: Former Press Secretary, House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight; Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Burton.4 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew CoatsHall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.Covered position: Former Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mark Souder4 filingsthrough 2017
Susan ZookMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. Bill Shuster3 filingsthrough 2014
