Sean Brady Joins Mehlman Consulting
July 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Mehlman Consulting announced today that Sean Brady, who most recently served as Director of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Commerce Department’...
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K-Street AI Spending Boom Fueled by Startups and Big Tech
June 24, 2026
Spending on lobbying related to artificial intelligence is surging in Washington, fueled by Big Tech and a growing number of smaller startups seeking a larger voice in the debate. K Street generate...
READ MOREThe Hill's Top Lobbyists 2025
December 11, 2025
Welcome The Hill’s annual list of Top Lobbyists. President Trump’s return to the White House brought a whirlwind of policy changes and political battles to Washington, D.C., creating both obsta...
READ MOREEarl Scott Flood Joins Mehlman Consulting
December 2, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The leading bipartisan government relations firm Mehlman Consulting announced today that it is bringing on senior Democratic Hill staffer Earl Scott Flood as a Principal. &nb...
READ MORETrump’s broadside against health insurers is a cautionary tale for industry
November 16, 2025
Insurance companies challenged GOP orthodoxy on Obamacare. It’s not going well. Insurers and drug companies facing dire threats to their bottom lines this year from President Donald Trump and Rep...
READ MOREGOP Districts ‘Supercharged’ Obamacare Use Is Risk in Shutdown Fight
October 3, 2025
The health insurance subsidies at the center of the US government shutdown fight disproportionately benefit areas of the country represented by Republican lawmakers, posing a potential vulnerability f...
READ MORETrump Struggles with Mixed Economic Message
May 8, 2025
President Trump and his economic team are experimenting with a hodgepodge of messaging tactics to sell his tariff policy as they struggle to appease concerns over rising prices. Trump began this we...
READ MOREWashington DC's 500 Most Influential People of 2025
May 7, 2025
Each year, we publish a special issue featuring the 500 most influential people in Washington. With a new administration now in place, these power players’ expertise and strategic insight are especi...
READ MORECEOs are trying to deal with Trump - without becoming targets
April 2, 2025
A group of powerful business leaders gathered to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in late February, seeking reassurance that President Donald Trump could be dissuaded from following through...
READ MOREBlackburn's Chief Heads Downtown
March 6, 2025
Mehlman Consulting has hired a top aide to Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the chair of two key subcommittees with jurisdiction over tech issues and one of the architects of last year’s kids online...
READ MORETrump Turns to Hill Vet’s Deep Lobbying Ties to Boost Tax Deal
January 6, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the Treasury Department’s top tax adviser shows how seriously the incoming administration is about delivering on a mammoth 2025 tax bill. Trump on Jan. 2...
READ MORETelehealth, hospital-at-home waivers extended for 90 days
December 23, 2024
Following a tumultuous battle of wills, Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown, passing a year-end spending bill that includes a three-month extension for pandemic-era telehealth flexibilitie...
READ MOREThe Hill's Top Lobbyists 2024
December 5, 2024
Welcome to The Hill’s annual list of top lobbyists. The lobbyists on this list are some of the best in the business and have been go-to advocates during a year defined by unprecedented poli...
READ MOREElon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy meet with Republicans to talk spending cuts. They face a steep climb.
December 5, 2024
WASHINGTON — Tech billionaire Elon Musk and conservative activist Vivek Ramaswamy on Thursday began in-person discussions with congressional Republicans about ways they could slash federal spending ...
READ MOREPolitico Pro Morning Pulse : An HHS Roadmap
November 7, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely be a part of a second Trump administration’s HHS, where he could play a major role in shaping policy as the department grapples with cybersecurity and legal challen...
READ MORENew lines of attack form against the Affordable Care Act
August 13, 2024
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is back under attack. Not as in the repeal-and-replace debates of yore, but in a fresher take from Republican lawmakers who say key parts of the ACA cost taxpayers too mu...
READ MOREMehlman Consulting adds Top Senate and House Counsel Naveen Parmar
August 5, 2024
Naveen Parmar, a seasoned Capitol Hill veteran serving in multiple senior roles in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will be joining Mehlman Consulting August 1 as a Principal at the r...
READ MOREMehlman Consulting Adds Top Leadership Aide Annie Wolf
July 2, 2024
Annie Wolf, one of Capitol Hill’s most respected Leadership staff, is decamping the Hill to join Mehlman Consulting, which is consistently rated one of the most effective lobbying firms in town. ...
READ MOREPolitico Influence: Mehlman's Latest
May 29, 2024
MEHLMAN’S LATEST: Mehlman Consulting’s Bruce Mehlman is out with his latest slide deck, which runs down the state of play in the race for control of Congress and the White House and highlights the...
READ MOREGaming out Trump 2.0
May 29, 2024
Official Washington is starting to game out what a second Trump presidency would mean for health policy, with industry and conservative groups prioritizing options — including for if there's a GOP s...
READ MOREWashington DC’s 500 Most Influential People of 2024
May 2, 2024
Our nation’s capital is full of people who aren’t elected but who shape the laws and policies that govern our nation and ultimately affect the course of history. Despite what the news says, the ma...
READ MOREMehlman Consulting Names Nichole Distefano and Paul Thornell as Partners
January 24, 2024
Washington, DC (Jan. 24, 2024) – Mehlman Consulting announced today that Nichole Distefano and Paul Thornell are the newest partners at the bipartisan firm. “Naming Nichole and Paul as partners re...
READ MORERepublicans once championed public health. What happened?
December 13, 2023
PEPFAR and NIH were once pet projects for Republicans. Now they’re targets. It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans were all-in on boosting public health spending. “The highest investment pr...
READ MOREThe Hill’s Top Lobbyists 2023
December 6, 2023
In January, Capitol Hill opened its doors to lobbyists once again after pandemic restrictions were lifted. That means corporate lobbyists, hired guns, association leaders and grassroots activists ...
READ MOREBiden campaign gets much-needed jolt amid Trump’s ObamaCare threats
November 30, 2023
President Biden’s campaign was given a much-needed shot in the arm this week from former President Trump’s repeated threats against ObamaCare. Trump handed Democrats a gift when he sudden...
READ MORE‘Not a health care guy:’ Johnson likely to lean on leaders and aides for policy smarts
November 29, 2023
Health care lobbyists and advocates expect the House leadership shakeup that gave Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson the gavel and the staff exits that followed to shift more power to committee leaders...
READ MOREMehlman Consulting adds 2 Senior Hill Aides
October 16, 2023
House GOP Leadership Healthcare Aide Alye Mlinar and Ag Staff Director & former Leahy Deputy Chief Erica Chabot To Join Bipartisan Firm in October Alyene Mlinar, one of Washington, DC’s most ...
READ MOREBruce Mehlman on NewsNation
October 3, 2023
Washington strategist discusses 2024 Presidential campaign, wondering whether both parties are trying to lose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lox4tqYeq7c...
READ MOREHow Polarization Sent Washington to the Brink of a Shutdown
September 30, 2023
WASHINGTON—The small group of House Republicans bucking their party leaders and trying to push the government toward a shutdown would have carried a dismissive label in past years. They would be c...
READ MOREExpected Trump-Biden rematch shows how not to win, new analysis says
September 26, 2023
Are both parties trying to lose the 2024 presidential election? Driving the news: Lobbyist Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Consulting poses that question in one of his famous decks synthesizing p...
READ MOREMehlman Consulting Releases 2023 Fall Congressional Outlook
September 6, 2023
The Senate is back, the House returns next week, and there are only 11 legislative days both Chambers are in session before the end of the Fiscal Year (September 30). In honor of the start of football...
READ MOREWhite House goes all in on ‘Bidenomics’
June 27, 2023
President Biden is attempting to coin a term central to his economic message in 2024: “Bidenomics,” using the slogan to highlight the work his administration has done to turn the economy around wh...
READ MOREWashington DC’s 500 Most Influential People
May 9, 2023
Here’s our list of the experts and advocates, outside the government, who are playing big roles in Washington’s policy debates. For our third annual edition of the Most Influential People Shapi...
READ MORERepublicans Effectively Voted to Raise Taxes. They’re Fine With That.
April 29, 2023
The party, united for decades around the view that net tax increases are unacceptable, on Wednesday advanced debt-ceiling legislation that would raise taxes by more than $300 billion over a ...
READ MOREHealthcare coverage for millions in U.S. will turn on a debate emerging in Washington
March 10, 2023
WASHINGTON — After being eclipsed by immigration, crime and other issues in recent years, healthcare is moving back toward center stage in American politics. It’s a shift that has divided R...
READ MOREBusiness Leaders Need Smarter Strategies to Navigate the Culture Wars
March 6, 2023
In addition to inflation, deglobalization & disruptive innovation, 2023 CEOs confront expanding culture wars. To successfully navigate them, C-suites need to follow four rules, offered below. "...
READ MOREHILL TAX BRIEFING: GOP Jockeys for Ways and Means Subcommittees
January 11, 2023
Now that Republicans have named Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) as the next chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the scramble is on to chair subcommittees and begin oversight. The par...
READ MOREMehlman Issues New Report Looking Ahead to the 118th Congress
December 21, 2022
Today, Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas released a new report that identifies the key issues that Congress and the Biden Administration will confront next year. While Congress is racing to finis...
READ MOREDean Rosen, David Thomas, and Mike Robinson Named in The Hill's 2022 Top Lobbyists List
December 7, 2022
Three of our partners, Dean Rosen, David Thomas, and Mike Robinson, have all been included on The Hill's 2022 annual list of top lobbyists. The list honors the corporate lobbyists, hired guns, associa...
READ MOREMehlman 2022 Election Analysis
November 21, 2022
(CNN): The Devil You Know Election: “In a slide deck seeking to understand what happened in the 2022 election, Republican lobbyist Bruce Mehlman wrote: ‘Voters sought stability at a time of height...
READ MOREIn HELP’s top Republican, K Street hopes for a dealmaker
November 18, 2022
Lobbyists are ready for Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to lead Republicans on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — touting him as a dealmaker who can work across party l...
READ MORETelehealth: “Should I Stay or Should I Go…?”
August 17, 2022
Up until a few years ago, the prevailing perception of telehealth was that it was some futuristic, Jetson-like nice-to-have for a limited set of use cases. Of course, this was misguided, but it r...
READ MOREThe View from The Corner Office
June 16, 2022
As an expert on America’s complex health care system, Dean Rosen G’90, L’90 says health care became his focus by accident, but has endured because of his work’s important interplay and interse...
READ MOREWashington’s Most Influential People
May 3, 2022
Washington’s Most Influential People: THE 250 EXPERTS AND ADVOCATES—OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT—WHO’LL BE SHAPING THE POLICY DEBATES OF THE YEARS TO COME. There’s an old story about a senator ...
READ MOREPOLITICO Influence: ‘Telehealth Cliff’ Draws Lobbying From Nontraditional Players
February 11, 2022
POLITICO Influence: ‘Telehealth Cliff’ Draws Lobbying From Nontraditional Players ‘TELEHEALTH CLIFF’ DRAWS LOBBYING FROM NONTRADITIONAL PLAYERS: “Ahead of an election-year spending sho...
READ MOREDown to the Wire: What to Expect as Congress Hurdles Towards Critical December Deadlines
November 15, 2021
Down to the Wire: What to Expect as Congress Hurdles Towards Critical December Deadlines True to form, the nation’s most infamous procrastinating governmental body finds itself bumping up on severa...
READ MOREBipartisan wins are there for the taking
September 10, 2021
Reports of the death of bipartisanship in Washington are greatly exaggerated. From making drinking water safer to improving surface transportation to declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday, lawmakers ...
READ MOREBlack Men Are Missing from Washington’s Key Power Centers
July 28, 2021
About the authors: Paul N.D. Thornell is a principal at Mehlman Consulting and a board member of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Larry Parks is chair of the Potomac Coalition. Kev...
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