39 filings from 1 registrant · 2014–2023 · latest filed Oct 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$2.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.1M
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
39 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
39 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Small Business
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 21 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3641115th CongressFree File Permanence Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning ; ; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning42 filingsthrough 2023
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC34 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Dep. Asst. USTR for Cong. Affairs, USTR ; ; Leg. Asst., U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak27 filingsthrough 2020
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC23 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 39 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: intuit-inc-and-affiliates-f-k-a-intuit-inc.
SMB
35 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
23 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Retirement
RET
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.
117th Congress
American Data Privacy and Protection Act
3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2901115th CongressVolunteer Income Tax Assistance Permanence Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3860115th CongressIRS Data Verification Modernization Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4938114th CongressFree File Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1165118th CongressData Privacy Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 1957116th CongressGreat American Outdoors Act2 filingsthrough 2019
H.Res. 810116th CongressExpressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Free File program has made vital contributions to the public.2 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3246115th CongressTaxpayer First Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3278115th CongressProtecting Taxpayers Act2 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5725114th CongressIRS Data Verification Modernization Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6118114th CongressFinancial Services Innovation Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
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.
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 Thune
19 filingsthrough 2019
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 Boehner17 filingsthrough 2023
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Counselor to the Secretary, HUD Assoc. Admin. for Cong. & Leg. Affairs, EPA15 filingsthrough 2022
Alicia W SmithThe Smith-Free Group, LLC13 filingsthrough 2017
Sarah Dumont MerchakThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Congressional Affairs, Federal Housing Finance Agency; Professional Staff Member, Senate Banking Committee.9 filingsthrough 2023
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 Torres6 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 Assist., Senate HELP Committee, Sen. Edward Kennedy5 filingsthrough 2022
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2021
Chris ScribnerThe Smith-Free Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2020
Philip G KikoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir. & Gen Counsel, House Admin. Committee ; ; Counsel, U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner ; ; CoS & 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 Interior1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 9 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
