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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Delia C. RamirezD-Illinois-AL
Bills: H.R. 1351, H.R. 1385, H.R. 1521 +7 more
49 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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: american-dental-association.
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.
BUD
177 filings
$43.1M on those filings
Education
EDU
155 filings
$41.3M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
128 filings
$30.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
99 filings
$34.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
90 filings
$33M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
80 filings
$31.4M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
75 filings
$27.3M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
63 filings
$37.4M on those filings
Insurance
INS
55 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Veterans
VET
51 filings
$29.3M 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
SMILED Act
21 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act21 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1798113th CongressDental Insurance Fairness Act of 201321 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3843118th CongressAction for Dental Health Act of 202320 filingsthrough 2024
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:
72 filingsthrough 2026
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning ; ; Legislative Director, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning69 filingsthrough 2025
Dave LarsonAmerican Capitol Group68 filingsthrough 2025
Michael A GrahamAmerican Dental Association66 filingsthrough 2024
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Counselor to the Secretary, HUD ; ; Assoc. Admin. for Cong. & Leg. Affairs, EPA63 filingsthrough 2024
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC52 filingsthrough 2021
FRANK ANSLEY KYLE jrAmerican Dental Association46 filingsthrough 2018
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon42 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas SpanglerAmerican Dental Association42 filingsthrough 2017
Judith C ShermanAmerican Dental Association26 filingsthrough 2014
Julie Scott AllenFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP24 filingsthrough 2016
Brett BakerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Senators Crapo, Grassley, and Hatch)-Deputy Health Policy Director; Health Policy Dir.; Senior Policy Advsr; Policy Advisor. U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means (Reps. Camp and Ryan) Prof. Staff22 filingsthrough 2026
Judith C ShermanMrs. Judith C. Sherman22 filingsthrough 2021
Michael A. GaffinThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Sen. Sherrod Brown; Leg. Director, Rep. Rob Andrews; Leg. Asst., Rep. Anna Eshoo; Jr. Leg. Assoc., House Ed. and Labor Committee, Rep. George Miller; Staff Assist., Senate HELP Committee, Sen. Edward Kennedy21 filingsthrough 2026
Summer MersingerThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: DC Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; Sr Policy Adv, Sen Commerce Cmte; Dep Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; Gen Counsel, Sen John Thune; Exec Dir, Sen John Thune; Confidential Asst, OPIC; Executive Asst, Sen John Thune; Staff Asst, Sen John Thune19 filingsthrough 2019
JOHN CHRISTIE iiiThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. Rep. of Staff, Rep. Alma Adams; Leg. Director, Rep. Alma Adams; Senior Leg. Assist., Rep. Alma Adams; Leg. Assist., Rep. Alma Adams; Leg. Correspondent/Leg. Aide, Rep. Norma Torres17 filingsthrough 2026
