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.
Banking
BAN
25 filings
$30K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$30K 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.
S. 67114th CongressRestoring Main Street Investor Protection and Confidence Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1982114th CongressRestoring Main Street Investor Protection and Confidence Act7 filingsthrough 2016
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Dep. Asst. USTR for Cong. Affairs, USTRLeg. Asst., U.S. Rep. Bart StupakLeg. Asst., U.S. Rep. Bill Ford26 filingsthrough 2017
James E SmithThe Smith-Free Group, LLC24 filingsthrough 2016
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Aide, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 2 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: network-for-investor-action-and-protection.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Restoring Main Street Investor Protection and Confidence Act
5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1725113th CongressRestoring Main Street Investor Protection and Confidence Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 757112th CongressEquitable Treatment of Investors Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5032111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5058111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3166111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1159111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 6531111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
