63 filings from 3 registrants · 2012–2025 · latest filed Jan 28, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$4.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$3.8M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$400K
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.
Michael LiptakTravel Tech: the Travel Technology AssociationCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator Mitch McConnell32 filingsthrough 2022
Laura ChadwickTravel Tech: the Travel Technology AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-05), 2008-200912 filingsthrough 2025
Robin ReckTravel Tech: the Travel Technology Association9 filingsthrough 2013
Elizabeth W FrazeeTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Counsel and Legislative Director, Rep. Bob Goodlatte; Communications Director, Rep. Tom Bliley; Press Secretary, House Committee on Energy and Commerce
The filings
The 20 most recent of 63 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: travel-tech-the-travel-technology-association.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
SCI
39 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
39 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
30 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
28 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$940K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
6 filings
$250K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$618K on those filings
Insurance
INS
2 filings
$70K 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.
118th Congress
Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights
9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2498118th CongressHotel Fees Transparency Act of 20249 filingsthrough 2024
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.
7 filingsthrough 2025
Greg BarnesTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Counsel, House Committee on the Judiciary7 filingsthrough 2025
Matthew PlasterTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Commerce, Space and Technology; Broadband Policy Advisor, Senator Capito7 filingsthrough 2025
Nicole BrewinTravel Tech: the Travel Technology AssociationCovered position: Vice President, Government Affairs7 filingsthrough 2024
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning7 filingsthrough 2021
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2021
Joseph RubinTravel Tech: the Travel Technology AssociationCovered position: Legislative Director, Cong George Gekas5 filingsthrough 2012
David WadeTravel Tech: the Travel Technology AssociationCovered position: Consultant4 filingsthrough 2024
Brandon PalumboTravel Tech: the Travel Technology AssociationCovered position: Correspondence Manager, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), 2017; Legislative Assistant, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), 2021-20233 filingsthrough 2025
Michael A. GaffinThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Sen. Sherrod Brown; Leg. Director, Rep. Rob Andrews; Leg. Asst., Rep. Anna Eshoo; Jr. Leg. Assoc., House Ed and Labor Committee, Rep. George Miller; Staff Asst. Senate HELP Committee, Sen. Edward Kennedy3 filingsthrough 2021
Chris ScribnerThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2020
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon1 filingthrough 2021
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 12 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
