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.
Mike Williams Capitol Strategies LLC (F/K/A Mw Capitol Strategies LLC)
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: smith-wesson-brands-inc.
$310K
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.
FIN
18 filings
$730K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
10 filings
$370K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$90K 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
Protecting the Dignity of Unborn Children Act of 2023
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 615118th CongressProtecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 698118th CongressAssault Weapons Ban of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 298118th CongressKeep Americans Safe Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7450118th CongressProtecting Privacy in Purchases Act4 filingsthrough 2024
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.
4 filings
through 2021
Michael WilliamsSteptoe LLP4 filingsthrough 2021
Taylor BushSteptoe LLPCovered position: Deputy White House Liaison, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; White House Liaison, U.S. Department of Energy; Special Advisor, U.S. Department of State2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 2 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
