Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Smithville Communications
Indiana
41 filings from 1 registrant · 2016–2026 · latest filed Jul 21, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$810K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$810K
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.
Telecommunications
TEC
41 filings
$810K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2929 116th CongressRural Broadband Network Advancement Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
- H.R. 1650 117th CongressTo require the Federal Communications Commission to study the current and projected demands on rural broadband networks associated with services offered by edge providers, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2022
- S. 2965
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Andrew Ehrlich Ehrlich & AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff for Rep. Randy Tate (1994-1996), Chief of Staff for Rep. Rick Lazio (1997-2000)42 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 1 of 1 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 41 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: smithville-communications.