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.
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning44 filingsthrough 2025
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC38 filingsthrough 2024
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 Assist, Senate HELP Committee, Sen. Edward Kennedy24 filingsthrough 2026
Harold HancockBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP Tax Counsel, House Ways and Means Committee
The filings
The 20 most recent of 66 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: universal-corporation.
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.
TOB
42 filings
$1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
32 filings
$810K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
22 filings
$580K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
10 filings
$200K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$20K 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
FDA Deeming Authority Clarification Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2952118th CongressAGOA Extension Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6399118th CongressSpecialty CROP Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3300118th CongressSpecialty CROP Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1642116th CongressCombating the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products Act6 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1837115th CongressTobacco Tax Equity Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4742116th CongressProtecting American Lungs Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5038116th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2463116th CongressE-Cigarette Tax Parity Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 281115th CongressFamily Farm Relief Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2958119th CongressAGOA Extension and Bilateral Engagement Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
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:
14 filingsthrough 2024
Russell W. SullivanBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee14 filingsthrough 2024
Mark WarrenBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: ChfTaxCounsel, Sen Fin Comm; SrTaxCounsel, Sen Thune; TaxCounsel, Hs W&M Comm; DepAsstSec, Dept of Treas, Leg Affairs; ChfCounsel, Sen Repub Policy Comm; StaffDir and ChfCounsel, Sen Small Bus Comm; TaxAndFinanceCounsel, Sen Small Bus Comm14 filingsthrough 2024
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 Cannon10 filingsthrough 2026
