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: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning30 filingsthrough 2024
W. Timothy LockeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC30 filingsthrough 2024
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC15 filingsthrough 2021
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Counselor to the Secretary, HUD; Assoc. Admin. for Cong. and Leg. Affairs, EPA13 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: walker-dunlop-inc.
$530K
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
7 filings
$210K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Banking
BAN
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$60K 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.
117th Congress
DASH Act
6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1171116th CongressRespect the Caps Act6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6820116th CongressEmergency Rental Assistance and Rental Market Stabilization Act of 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3685116th CongressEmergency Rental Assistance and Rental Market Stabilization Act of 20203 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 10115th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 344118th CongressSecuring America’s Land from Foreign Interference Act1 filingthrough 2023
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
13 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 Boehner12 filingsthrough 2022
Douglas MaguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP10 filingsthrough 2026
Robert John RobilliardBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA); Legislative Intern, Rep David Scott (D-GA); Legislative Intern, Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA)10 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah Dumont MerchakThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Congressional Affairs, Federal Housing Finance Agency; Professional Staff Member, Senate Banking Committee.10 filingsthrough 2023
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 Thun10 filingsthrough 2019
Norman BrownsteinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP9 filingsthrough 2026
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 Kennedy9 filingsthrough 2023
JOHN CHRISTIE iiiThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. Rep. of Staff, Rep. Alma Adams; Leg. Director, Rep. Alma Adams; Senior Leg. Assist., Rep. Alma Adams; Leg. Assist., Rep. Alma Adams; Leg. Correspondent/Leg. Aide, Rep. Norma Torres8 filingsthrough 2024
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2021
Chris ScribnerThe Smith-Free Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2020
