Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Smits Speidell Consulting
Virginia
17 filings from 1 registrant · 2012–2016 · latest filed Apr 20, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$160K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$160K
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.
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
17 filings
$160K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$150K 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. 869 114th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to broaden the special rules for certain governmental plans under section 105(j) to include plans established by political subdivisions.5 filingsthrough 2016
- S. 1667 114th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the special rules for accident and health plans of certain governmental entities, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2016
- H.R. 2698
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Tim Peckinpaugh K&L Gates, LLP18 filingsthrough 2016
- Mary Burke Baker K&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Sen Fin Comm15 filingsthrough 2016
- Chad See K&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 1 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: smits-speidell-consulting.