45 filings from 1 registrant · 2012–2023 · latest filed Feb 22, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$574K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$574K
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.
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$273K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$205K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1112116th CongressEnhanced Background Checks Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
Jennifer CovinoCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: President39 filingsthrough 2022
Leonard S SimonCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: President26 filingsthrough 2019
David Simon GellmanCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: Rep. Deutch (02/14-02/15) Rep. Grijalava (02/15-05/17)20 filingsthrough 2022
Silvana CalderaCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.) Rep. Sarbanes (2014-2016)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2023
Covino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)
Covino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)
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: louisville-kentucky.
ECN
11 filings
$148K on those filings
Housing
HOU
11 filings
$144K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
9 filings
$120K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
9 filings
$117K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$107K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
6 filings
$80K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$77K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
5 filings
$64K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$53K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$42K 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.
116th Congress
The Heroes Act
2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 8116th CongressBipartisan Background Checks Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 5735117th CongressState, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act1 filingthrough 2021
S. 1703116th CongressAffordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
S. 1811116th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20201 filingthrough 2020
S. 2302116th CongressAmerica's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 20191 filingthrough 2020
S. 3649115th CongressFirst Step Act1 filingthrough 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.
Covered position:
18 filingsthrough 2020
Brandon Hershel KeyCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)10 filingsthrough 2016
Ivonne Hernandez LopezCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver7 filingsthrough 2022
Katherine MillerCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)6 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
