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, FTC;
Deputy Director for Legislative Affairs, Vice President Gore;
Staff Assistant, Senator Metzenbaum18 filingsthrough 2022
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 Bartlett18 filingsthrough 2022
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tech Policy;
General Counsel and Policy Director, House Republican Conference
The filings
The 20 most recent of 90 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: twilio-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.
COM
37 filings
$4M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
32 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
11 filings
$750K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
6 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$695K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$30K 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.
118th Congress
Cooper Davis Act
7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3375116th CongressStopping Bad Robocalls Act6 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 8152117th CongressAmerican Data Privacy and Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4066116th CongressPACT Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3184117th CongressCivil Rights Modernization Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5596117th CongressJustice Against Malicious Algorithms Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2427117th CongressFAIR Contributions Act2 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4758116th CongressSee Something, Say Something Online Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1816117th CongressInformation Transparency & Personal Data Control Act1 filingthrough 2021
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:
18 filingsthrough 2022
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, Representative Dave Camp18 filingsthrough 2022
Michael RobinsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Member Services and Coalitions Director, House Appropriations Committee;
Policy Advisor/Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader/Representative Tom DeLay;
Legislative Director, Representative Hal Rogers;; Senior Legislative Assistant, Representative Ralph Regula;
Senior Legislative Assistant, Representative Bob Franks;
Legislative Assistant, Representative Hal Rogers;; Special Projects Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee;
Staff Assistant, Representative Bud Shuster18 filingsthrough 2022
Constantine HingsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dan Coats;
Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Judd Gregg;
General Counsel, Senator Elizabeth Dole18 filingsthrough 2022
Helen TolarMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator John Boozman;
Staff Director/Chief Counsel, House Veterans Affairs Committee (Representative Jeff Miller);
Professional Staff/Counsel, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (Senator Larry Craig);; Counsel/Legislative Director, Representative Jeff Miller;
Legislative Assistant, Representative Jeff Miller;
Scheduler, Representative Jeff Miller;
Law Clerk, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee18 filingsthrough 2022
Nichole DistefanoMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill17 filingsthrough 2022
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, Representative R. Boschwitz16 filingsthrough 2022
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, Representative Rahm Emanuel;
Health LA, Representative Carolyn McCarthy16 filingsthrough 2022
Rebecca M ThompsonTwilio Inc.16 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew TanielianFranklin Square Group, LLC15 filingsthrough 2026
Joshua AckilFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Associate Director - Sen. Democratic Conference Committee (Sen. Tom Daschle)15 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah Beth JansenFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Cmte (Sen. Tom Coburn); General Counsel, Counsel, Judiciary Rep. -Sen. Judiciary Cmte/Privacy Tech & Law Subcmte (Sen. Tom Coburn), Intern -Sen. Jeff Sessions; Intern -House Judiciary Committee15 filingsthrough 2026
Wesley McclellandFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy; Senior Policy Advisor - House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Senior Policy Advisor - Rep. John Campbell; Legislative Assistant - Rep. Bill Thomas15 filingsthrough 2026
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 Daschle15 filingsthrough 2022
Steve HaroMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Dianne Feinstein;
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs;
Chief of Staff, Senator Martin Heinrich;
Chief of Staff, Representative Martin Heinrich;; Senior Advisor, Representative Xavier Becerra;
Director of Legislation and Communication, Representative Xavier Becerra;
Press Secretary, Representative Xavier Becerra15 filingsthrough 2022
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus;
Chief of Staff, Representative Norm Mineta;
EA, Representative Ed Markey14 filingsthrough 2021
Kevin CumminsFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Sr. Professional Staff - Sen. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant - Sen. Tom Udall13 filingsthrough 2026
Michael W SeedsTwilio Inc.Covered position: Intern / Rep. Jeb Hensarling (2005-2006); Legislative Correspondent & Staff Assistant / Rep. Joe Barton (2006-2008); Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Dep. Chief of Staff & Chief of Staff / Rep. Mac Thornberry (2008-June 2020)13 filingsthrough 2023
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrFranklin Square Group, LLC12 filingsthrough 2026
David RedlSalt Point StrategiesCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator, Dept. of Commerce/ Nat'l Telecom. and Info. Admin; Chief Counsel, House Committee on Energy and Commerce12 filingsthrough 2024
Jared WeaverSalt Point StrategiesCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff-Rep. Anne Eshoo; Legislative Counsel- Rep. Jay Inslee12 filingsthrough 2024
Mckenzie BriceMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondence Manager, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jim Webb11 filingsthrough 2022
Rhod ShawAlpine Group Partners, LLC.11 filingsthrough 2021
Curtis PhilipAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Lamar Smith/Professional Staff member, House Science Cmte; Legislative Director, Rep. Louie Gohmert; Legislative Counsel, Rep. Bill Cassidy; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Chuck Grassley11 filingsthrough 2021
