41 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2020 · latest filed Mar 17, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Insurance
INS
35 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 32 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1595116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 508113th CongressTRIA Reauthorization Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLC42 filingsthrough 2019
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLC39 filingsthrough 2019
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner14 filingsthrough 2019
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: aon.
FIN
13 filings
$730K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Retirement
RET
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Banking
BAN
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$60K 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.
116th Congress
STATES Act
3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5381115th CongressGRATER Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2146113th CongressTerrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4871113th CongressTRIA Reform Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2244113th CongressTerrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 674112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities, to modify the calculation of modified adjusted gross income for purposes of determining eligibility for certain healthcare-related programs, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1028116th CongressSTATES Act2 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1200116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2293116th CongressExport-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.2 filingsthrough 2015
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.2 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1970113th CongressRetirement Security Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1979113th CongressUSA Retirement Funds Act2 filingsthrough 2014
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.
The Smith-Free Group, LLC
7 filingsthrough 2019
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC7 filingsthrough 2016
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2017
James E SmithThe Smith-Free Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2009
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2019
Philip G KikoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Acting Dir./Dep. Dir (Hrgs & Appeals) Dept. of Int1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 2 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
