34 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2025 · latest filed Dec 25, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
31 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
27 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4104118th CongressPreserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5068117th CongressPrioritize Evacuation of U.S. Citizens in Afghanistan Act6 filingsthrough 2022
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning32 filingsthrough 2025
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Counselor to the Secretary, HUD; Assoc. Admin. for Cong. and Leg. Affairs, EPA22 filingsthrough 2024
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 Assist., Senate HELP Committee, Sen. Edward Kennedy16 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 34 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: rescare-inc-dba-brightspring-health-services.
HCR
12 filings
$520K on those filings
Veterans
VET
8 filings
$430K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$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 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.
118th Congress
Health Care Price Transparency Act of 2023
5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5632117th CongressLong-Term Care Pharmacy Definition Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6020117th CongressSupporting Medicare Providers Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6655118th CongressA Stronger Workforce for America Act4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4131117th CongressBetter Care Better Jobs Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5514117th CongressChoose Home Care Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8581117th CongressPreserving Access to Home Health Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1574117th CongressLong-Term Care Pharmacy Definition Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
H.Con.Res. 14119th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 2172119th CongressPreserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 1976118th CongressTo provide for a limitation on availability of funds for Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for fiscal year 2024.1 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2021
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.
W. Timothy Locke
The Smith-Free Group, LLC
16 filingsthrough 2024
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 Boehner5 filingsthrough 2025
JOHN CHRISTIE iiiThe Smith-Free Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2025
Chris ScribnerThe Smith-Free Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2020
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 2017
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
