# Mehlman Consulting The **#12 lobbying firm in DC by 2025 revenue ($28.33M, 140 clients)**. Founded 2004 by Bruce Mehlman — Assistant Secretary of Commerce for technology policy under George W. Bush and former general counsel to the House Republican Conference — the firm cycled through partner-name permutations (Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti; Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas) before rebranding to the single-name Mehlman Consulting around its 20th anniversary in 2024. Explicitly bipartisan, with no verified Trump-administration alumni among its partners — the top-20's cleanest example of policy-expertise-based rather than proximity-based lobbying. Note: Bruce Mehlman is the brother of Ken Mehlman (RNC chairman 2005–07), not the former RNC chair himself — a common conflation. ## Scale and clients 2025 income of $28.33M was up ~8% from $26.24M in 2024, driven by the year's tax/trade/AI/crypto policy churn. The client book is a tour of 2025's hottest files: [[Andreessen Horowitz]] on crypto legislation including the [[GENIUS Act]], AMD on semiconductors and export controls, Adobe on AI, Axon, Business Roundtable and Aflac on tax, AARP on drug costs, Invenergy and ONEOK on energy. ## Revolving door The bench pairs senior aides from both parties: Dean Rosen (chief healthcare advisor to Majority Leader Bill Frist — Medicare Part D, PEPFAR), Sage Eastman (senior advisor to Ways & Means chair Dave Camp), David Thomas (chief of staff to Rep. [[Zoe Lofgren]]; deputy legislative affairs director for VP Gore), Paul Thornell (Gore, Daschle), and Nichole Distefano (legislative director to Sen. Claire McCaskill; Obama EPA). ## FARA Lapsed historical registrant only: in 2013 the firm registered for the Government of Alberta to lobby for the Keystone XL pipeline (~$200K). No current foreign principals found. ## See also [[Lobbying Hub]] · [[Lobbying]] · [[Revolving Door]] · [[GENIUS Act]] · [[2025 Record Lobbying Year]]