19 filings from 1 registrant · 2020–2024 · latest filed Jan 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$570K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$570K
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.
Agriculture
AGR
15 filings
$470K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 253117th CongressCannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 841117th CongressHemp and Hemp-Derived CBD Consumer Protection and Market Stabilization Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Assistant, Rep. Chris Cannon; Leg. Director, Rep. John Porter; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner16 filingsthrough 2023
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 Kennedy10 filingsthrough 2023
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning8 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: gvb-biopharma.
TRD
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Postal
POS
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.
H.R. 2891118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2023
S. 1323118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2023
S. 910117th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4368118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2860118th CongressSAFER Banking Act2 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 3797116th CongressMedical Marijuana Research Act1 filingthrough 2020
H.R. 3884116th CongressMORE Act of 20201 filingthrough 2020
S. 2032116th CongressCannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act1 filingthrough 2020
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.
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 Torres
7 filingsthrough 2023
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2021
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2020
Chris ScribnerThe Smith-Free Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
