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.
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: citizens-financial-group-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
BAN
5 filings
$90K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Housing
HOU
2 filings
$40K 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.
114th Congress
Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 10115th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1484114th CongressFinancial Regulatory Improvement Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5715110th CongressEnsuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 987119th CongressFair Access to Banking Act3 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position:
22 filingsthrough 2014
CHARLES BAKER iiiDla Piper LLP (US)21 filingsthrough 2014
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Dep. Asst. USTR for Cong. Affairs, USTR; Leg. Asst., U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak15 filingsthrough 2019
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning12 filingsthrough 2019
Summer MersingerThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: DC Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; S Policy Adv, Senate Commerce Committee; Dep Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; Gen Couns, Sen John Thune; Exec Dir, Sen John Thune; Confidential Assist, OPIC; Exec Assist, Rep John Thune; Staff Assist, Rep John Thune3 filingsthrough 2019
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2018
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2018
Richard K ArmeyDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Member of Congress2 filingsthrough 2008
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 Boehner1 filingthrough 2016
Jean CampbellDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: District Director, Rep. Richard Armey1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 8 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
