99 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Jan 17, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$3.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.4M
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.
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: northwestern-mutual-life-insurance-company.
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.
20 filings
$600K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
19 filings
$630K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
10 filings
$440K on those filings
Retirement
RET
10 filings
$270K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 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 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.
114th Congress
Retail Investor Protection Act
3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4510113th CongressInsurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5983114th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.2 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2270113th CongressInsurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2048112th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the tax treatment of certain life insurance contract transactions, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3857115th CongressPASS Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 6743115th CongressConsumer Information Notification Requirement Act1 filingthrough 2018
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
through 2015
Paul S. BockHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator Herb Kohl18 filingsthrough 2017
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC17 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLC15 filingsthrough 2018
John JonasSquire Patton Boggs15 filingsthrough 2012
Heather MchughCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Chuck Schumer10 filingsthrough 2015
Paul S BockCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Kohl10 filingsthrough 2013
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon8 filingsthrough 2018
James E SmithThe Smith-Free Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2014
John P MaxwellMaxwell & Milder5 filingsthrough 2009
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Counselor to the Secretary; HUD; Assoc. Admin. for Cong. and Leg. Affairs, EPA3 filingsthrough 2018
Summer MersingerThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: DC Chief of Staff, Sen. John Thune;Sen. Policy Adv., Senate Commerce Cmte;Dep. Chief of Staff,Sen. John Thune;Gen Counsel,Sen. John Thune;Exec Dir., Sen. John Thune,Confidential Asst.,OPIC;Exec Asst,Rep. John Thune;Staff Asst,Rep. John Thune3 filingsthrough 2017
Kerry FeeheryHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Asst., Special Asst., Dep. Press Secretary, Sen. Connie Mac; Press Sec., Joint Econ. Cmte.; Policy Analyst, Sen. Budget Cmte.; Communications Dir., Sen. Mel Martinez; Dir., State Office Sen. George Lemieux; Chief of Staff, Sen. George Lemieux2 filingsthrough 2017
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2013
Philip G KikoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Acting Dir./Dep.Dir.(Hrgs&Appls),Dept.of Interior2 filingsthrough 2013
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 11 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
