15 filings from 3 registrants · 2020–2023 · latest filed Jan 19, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$450K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$450K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Foreign Relations
FOR
11 filings
$320K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Andrew KingNeale Creek, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lindsey Graham; Projects & Appropriations Director, Sen. Lindsey Graham; Deputy Chief of Staff, Sen. Lindsey Graham8 filingsthrough 2023
Chris JonesBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ferguson, 2001-2009; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. David McIntosh, 1995-2001; Communications Director, House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee, 1996-2001; Press Secretary, Rep. John Myers, 1994-1995.5 filingsthrough 2022
Adam HigginsBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Ferguson, 2007-2008.5 filingsthrough 2022
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: the-freedom-initiative.
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.
CIV
3 filings
$130K 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.
Greg Orlando
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Covered position: Counsel, Senate Commerce Cmte 2013-16; Counsel, Sen. Roger Wicker 2011-13; Comms Policy Specialist, Commerce Dept., NTIA 2010-11; Wireline Legal Advisor, FCC 2008; Leg Dir/Counsel, Rep. Mike Ferguson 2005-08; and Leg Dir, Rep. John Doolittle 2003-05.
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Assistant to Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB5 filingsthrough 2021
Eriade WilliamsAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director/Senior Policy Advisory/Legislative Counsel - Rep. Robert A Brady; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretrary - Rep. Albert Wynn5 filingsthrough 2021
Claire Ellen ShanklinAcg Advocacy5 filingsthrough 2021
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen3 filingsthrough 2020
Emily Bacque Da SilvaNeale Creek, LLC1 filingthrough 2022
Owen ReillyAcg Advocacy1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 8 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
