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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Computer Industry
CPI
311 filings
$42.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
244 filings
$44.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 240 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.18 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 2018.17 filingsthrough 2018
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: sap-america-inc.
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.
TAX
185 filings
$39.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
121 filings
$29.7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
103 filings
$37.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
101 filings
$28.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
97 filings
$19M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
92 filings
$24.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
74 filings
$24.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
42 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Intelligence
INT
39 filings
$13.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
27 filings
$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.
114th Congress
National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015
H.R. 1560114th CongressTo improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance multi-directional sharing of information related to cybersecurity risks and strengthen privacy and civil liberties protections, and for other purposes.13 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1116th CongressFor the People Act of 201912 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1770114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 202411 filingsthrough 2024
S. 931118th CongressStrengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act10 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act10 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 108116th CongressTargeting Rogue and Opaque Letters Act of 20199 filingsthrough 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.
Sap America, Inc.
47 filingsthrough 2019
David MyersAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Sen Domenici, Exec Asst to Sen DAmato39 filingsthrough 2019
Nicholas KarellasSap America, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Kit Bond (MO): Legislative Assistant; Rep. Lynn Jenkins (KS): Tax Counsel.37 filingsthrough 2026
Dean RosenMehlman 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, Rep. R. Boschwitz35 filingsthrough 2025
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Zoe Lofgren;
Director of Congressional Relations, FTC;
Deputy Director for Legislative Affairs, VP Gore;
Staff Assistant, Senator Metzenbaum35 filingsthrough 2025
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, House Republican Policy Committee;
Chief of Staff, Rep. John Shadegg;
Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dannemeyer;
Legislative Director, Rep. Bartlett35 filingsthrough 2025
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy;
General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference35 filingsthrough 2025
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, Rep. Dave Camp35 filingsthrough 2025
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, Rep. Rahm Emanuel;
Health LA, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy35 filingsthrough 2025
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Member Services and Coalitions Director, House Appropriations Committee;
Policy Advisor/Dep. Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader/Rep.Tom DeLay;
Leg Dir, Rep. Hal Rogers;
Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Ralph Regula;; Sr Leg Assistant, Rep. Bob Franks;
Leg Assistant, Rep. Hal Rogers;
Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee;
Staff Assistant, Rep. Bud Shuster35 filingsthrough 2025
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats;
Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg;
General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole35 filingsthrough 2025
Todd HarmerAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Senator Chambliss29 filingsthrough 2026
Rhod ShawAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Sherrod Brown29 filingsthrough 2017
Jared WeaverAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Anna Eshoo29 filingsthrough 2017
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 Committee28 filingsthrough 2025
Moshe M SchwartzEtherton and Associates, Inc.Covered position: Analyst, Congressional Research Service27 filingsthrough 2026
John Bond StephensonSap America, Inc.27 filingsthrough 2018
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill26 filingsthrough 2025
Heather MolinoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director House Intelligence Cmte; Deputy COS House Member Office, Director of Communications House Member Office (Ruppersberger)25 filingsthrough 2022
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 Daschle24 filingsthrough 2025
Jason SchendleAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Legislative Counsel, Sen. Mary Landrieu24 filingsthrough 2015
Holly FechnerCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Policy Director, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy; Chief Labor & Pensions Counsel, Senate HELP Committee.23 filingsthrough 2021
Zachary RudisillAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Portman, Jun 14-May 18, Tax Counsel; Rep. Dave Reichert, Jul 12-
Jun 14,Legslat Directr/Tax Counsl; House Ways Means Comm, Dec 10-
Jul 12; Rep. Dave Camp, Legislative Assist; House Ways and Means
Comm.Aug. 10-Nov. 10,Rep Dave Camp, Intern22 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy W JenkinsBallard Spahr LLP22 filingsthrough 2026
