Lobbying registrant · LD-2 disclosures
Can Manufacturers Institute
District of Columbia
24 filings · 1 client · 5 lobbyists registered · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 13, 2026
Fees billed to clients
$0
never billed a fee — files for itself
Its own lobbying spend
$0
none reported
Clients represented
1
5 lobbyists registered
Reported 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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR · 1 client
21 filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS · 1 client
21 filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
19 filings
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
- Michael John SmahaCovered position: Vice President, Government Relations25 filings1 client · through 2026
- Robert Budway3 filings1 client · through 2022
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: can-manufacturers-institute.