13 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2022 · latest filed Jun 30, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$310K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$310K
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.
Immigration
IMM
12 filings
$310K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$180K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 616114th CongressAmerican Entrepreneurship and Investment Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1501114th CongressAmerican Job Creation and Investment Promotion Reform Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC14 filingsthrough 2022
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 Thune6 filingsthrough 2017
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning4 filingsthrough 2021
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLC Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon
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: lcr-capital-partners-llc.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Targeted Employment Areas Improvement Act
5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2122114th CongressInvest in Our Communities Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1502115th CongressTo terminate the EB-5 program.4 filingsthrough 2017
S. 232115th CongressA bill to terminate the EB-5 Visa Program and to reallocate the employment creation visas to the other employment-based visa classifications.4 filingsthrough 2017
S. 727115th CongressInvest in Our Communities Act4 filingsthrough 2017
S. 345115th CongressWorkplace Advancement Act3 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5325114th CongressContinuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act2 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5992114th CongressAmerican Job Creation and Investment Promotion Reform 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.
Covered position:
3 filingsthrough 2021
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2021
Alicia W SmithThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2017
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 Kennedy1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
