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.
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning19 filingsthrough 2025
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLC15 filingsthrough 2024
Geoff DavisRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: former Member of U.S. House of Representatives.12 filingsthrough 2021
George Robb RogersRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., US Senate; Oversight Counsel, US House; General Counsel, Rules Committee, Counsel & Policy Advisor, Min Leader; Asst to Speaker, Speaker of the House
The filings
The 20 most recent of 33 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: calportland-corporation.
fees reported
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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.
11 filings
$430K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
11 filings
$320K on those filings
Torts
TOR
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$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
PROVE IT Act of 2024
2 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1863118th CongressPROVE IT Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act2 filingsthrough 2021
S. 4815117th CongressSTART Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
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.
10 filingsthrough 2021
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 Cannon2 filingsthrough 2026
JOHN CHRISTIE iiiThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. 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 Torres1 filingthrough 2025
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC1 filingthrough 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 Asst. Senate HELP Committee, Sen. Edward Kennedy1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
