13 filings from 1 registrant · 2012–2021 · latest filed Jan 19, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$350K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$350K
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.
Education
EDU
8 filings
$230K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3900116th CongressTo amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to strengthen protections relating to the online collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children and minors, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC11 filingsthrough 2021
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Assoc. Admin. for Cong. & Leg. Affairs, EPA8 filingsthrough 2021
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2021
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC7 filingsthrough 2020
Alicia W SmithThe Smith-Free Group, LLC
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: ingram-industries-inc.
3 filings
$70K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$50K 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.
6 filings
through 2020
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 Boehner5 filingsthrough 2020
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning4 filingsthrough 2021
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: ​Dep. Asst. USTR for Cong. Affairs, USTR4 filingsthrough 2019
James E SmithThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 4 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
