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
10 filings
$450K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$250K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1595116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
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 Boehner11 filingsthrough 2020
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2020
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Dep. Asst. USTR for Cong. Affairs, USTR; Leg. Asst., U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak9 filingsthrough 2020
Chris ScribnerThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2020
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: parallel-brands-inc.
6 filings
$250K 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
Financial Services and General
Government Appropriations Act, 2020
6 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1028116th CongressSTATES Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1200116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3884116th CongressMORE Act of 20204 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2055116th CongressAn Act Targeting Resources to Communities in Need3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2215115th CongressSAFE Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6258115th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1152115th CongressSAFE Banking Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3107115th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 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.
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning2 filingsthrough 2018
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 Thune1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 4 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
