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.
Jesús G. "Chuy" GarcíaD-Illinois-AL
Bills: H.R. 1351, H.R. 1521, H.R. 20 +8 more
46 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
James C SivonSivon Natter & Wechsler, P.C. (Fka Barnett Sivon & Natter, P.C.)33 filingsthrough 2026
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 Boehner31 filingsthrough 2026
Edward J DemarcoHousing Policy Council30 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 90 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: housing-policy-council.
$1.2M
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.
30 filings
$5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
30 filings
$5M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
13 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
12 filings
$590K on those filings
Veterans
VET
10 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$90K 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
Administrative False Claims Act of 2023
9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3694119th CongressVALID Act of 20258 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2362119th CongressVA Home Loan Awareness Act of 20257 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2651119th CongressROAD to Housing Act of 20257 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1260119th CongressRural Housing Service Reform Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
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.
JACK S DEUSER jr
The Smith-Free Group, LLC
Covered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning
29 filingsthrough 2025
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 Torres15 filingsthrough 2026
Bernard FultonHousing Policy CouncilCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, HUD, 2009-201710 filingsthrough 2023
Sarah Dumont MerchakThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Congressional Affairs, Federal Housing Finance Agency; Professional Staff Member, Senate Banking Committee10 filingsthrough 2023
Paul LeonardHousing Policy Council10 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 Kennedy8 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Dep. Asst. USTR for Cong. Affairs, USTR6 filingsthrough 2020
Mike MullenThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Sr. Leg. Asst., Rep. Mike Doyle5 filingsthrough 2026
