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.
Transportation
TRA
27 filings
$241K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
21 filings
$201K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1346115th CongressTo repeal the rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration entitled "Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform".1 filingthrough 2017
Jennifer CovinoCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: President38 filingsthrough 2026
David Simon GellmanCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: Rep. Deutch (02/14-02/15) Rep. Grijalava (02/15-05/17)24 filingsthrough 2026
Leonard S SimonCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: President20 filingsthrough 2019
Silvana CalderaCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.) Representative Sarbanes 2014-2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Covino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)
Covino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)
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: stanislaus-council-of-government.
4 filings
$34K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$27K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
2 filings
$19K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$9K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$7K 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.
115th Congress
A bill to repeal the rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration entitled "Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform".
1 filingthrough 2017
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.
Covered position:
19 filingsthrough 2020
Ivonne Hernandez LopezCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)Covered position: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver12 filingsthrough 2026
Katherine MillerCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)5 filingsthrough 2021
Brandon Hershel KeyCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)5 filingsthrough 2016
Sommer Sivichane SisonCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)2 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
