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.
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: square-inc.
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
11 filings
$310K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
8 filings
$220K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
8 filings
$200K on those filings
Banking
BAN
7 filings
$220K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$70K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$30K 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
STATES Act
3 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1200116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3884116th CongressMORE Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4813116th CongressKeep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act2 filingsthrough 2020
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 BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Dep. Asst. USTR for Cong. Affairs, USTR; Leg. Asst., U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (12/92- 1/95)
19 filingsthrough 2020
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning18 filingsthrough 2020
Summer MersingerThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: DC Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; S Policy Adv, Senate Commerce Committee; Dep Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; Gen Couns, Sen John Thune; Exec Dir, Sen John Thune; Confidential Assist, OPIC; Exec Assist, Rep John Thune; Staff Assist, Rep John Thune17 filingsthrough 2019
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC11 filingsthrough 2020
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner5 filingsthrough 2020
Brian WorthFranklin Square Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2017
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 4 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
