Smh International, LLC — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Smh International, LLC
New Jersey
19 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Oct 17, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$340K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$340K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$340K on those filings
Defense
DEF
15 filings
$320K 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.
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20095 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3001110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20095 filingsthrough 2008
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: smh-international-llc.
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5136111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20132 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5136112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on banana jack connectors.2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2467112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3454112th CongressIntelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20132 filingsthrough 2011
S. 3800112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 3800111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2647111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1390111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Andrew Engel Forbes
Cassidy & Associates, Inc.
Covered position: SLA Rep Keller & LSA T&I Comm (Aviation)
6 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
