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: Chief of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning ; ; Legislative Director, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning52 filingsthrough 2025
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Counselor to the Secretary, HUD ; ; Assoc. Admin. for Cong. & Leg. Affairs, EPA48 filingsthrough 2024
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC46 filingsthrough 2024
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC44 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 61 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: independent-pilots-association.
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.
LBR
3 filings
$210K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
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.
113th Congress
Safe Skies Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3459118th CongressIncreasing Competitiveness for American Drones Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1646114th CongressTechnical Clarification to Public Law 113-243 Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4547116th CongressSafe and Quiet Skies Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5371119th CongressContinuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act3 filingsthrough 2017
S. 571114th CongressPilot's Bill of Rights 23 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 7191119th CongressFatigued Pilot Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7526119th CongressSafe Skies Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8408116th CongressAircraft Certification Reform and Accountability Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4643115th CongressSafe Air Transport of Hazardous Materials Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2018
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.
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 Cannon
37 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Dep. Asst. USTR for Congressional Affairs, USTR ; ; Legislative Assistant, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak23 filingsthrough 2018
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 Thune19 filingsthrough 2019
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 Torres16 filingsthrough 2026
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 Kennedy8 filingsthrough 2026
Philip G KikoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir. & General Counsel, House Admin. Committee ; ; Counsel, U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner ; ; CoS & General Counsel, House Judiciary Committee ; ; CoS & Counsel, U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner ; ; Dep. CoS & Counsel, House Science Committee ; ; Assoc. Admin.(Procurement & Purchasing), U.S. House CAO ; ; Acting Dir./Dep. Dir., (Hrgs & Appeals), Dept. of Interior6 filingsthrough 2014
Peter GoelzO'Neill and Associates6 filingsthrough 2013
Amyclaire BruschO'Neill and Associates6 filingsthrough 2013
Mike MullenThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Sr. Leg. Asst., Rep. Mike Doyle5 filingsthrough 2026
James HallHall & Associates, LLCCovered position: Chairman, NTSB4 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 11 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
