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
23 filings
$246K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
15 filings
$170K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2302116th CongressAmerica's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2939116th CongressState and Local General Sales Tax Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2019
Jennifer CovinoCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: President32 filingsthrough 2026
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)22 filingsthrough 2026
Ivonne Hernandez LopezCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver16 filingsthrough 2026
Leonard S SimonCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 52 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
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: san-joaquin-valley-regional-planning-agencies-policy-council.
BUD
13 filings
$158K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$51K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
5 filings
$59K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$33K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$13K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
1 filing
$10K 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
A bill to amend the FAST Act to repeal a rescission of funds.
2 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1894113th CongressHealth Insurance Accountability Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2898114th CongressWestern Water and American Food Security Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
S. 1894114th CongressCalifornia Emergency Drought Relief Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 2898113th CongressDivision Realignment Act of 20131 filingthrough 2014
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: President
15 filingsthrough 2019
Silvana CalderaCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: Rep. Sarbanes (2014-2016)10 filingsthrough 2019
Brandon Hershel KeyCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)5 filingsthrough 2016
Sommer Sivichane SisonCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)3 filingsthrough 2025
Katherine MillerCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)3 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
