Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
59 filings
$23.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
58 filings
$23.2M on those filings
Health Issues
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Paul SeltmanCovered position: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation,HHS; Counsel, Senate Budget Committee; Counsel, House Budget Committee; Deputy Chief of Staff, Congressman Major R. Owens; Associate Counsel, House Education and Labor Committee.62 filings1 client · through 2026
JOHN E. MARTIN jrCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Roe; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jeb Hensarling; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Rick Santorum; Staff Assistant, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.44 filings1 client · through 2026
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: smith-nephew-inc.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $23.7M in expenses.
HCR · 1 client
50 filings
$20.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
29 filings
$12.7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
18 filings
$7.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
15 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
13 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
12 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Veterans
VET · 1 client
7 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
3 filings
$870K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 1 client
1 filing
$40K 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 money 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.
11 filings
1 client · through 2026
Todd SpanglerCovered position: House Ed & Workforce Cte; Senate HELP Cte6 filings1 client · through 2014
Stephen SimonettiCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Claudia Tenney; Senior Advisor, Rep. Rudy Yakym; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Jackie Walorski3 filings1 client · through 2024
Covered positions · 5 of 6 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.
Smith & Nephew Holdings, Inc.
United States of America
1 filing
through 2013
Smith & Nephew Management B.V.
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2013
Smith & Nephew PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2013
Smith & Nephew Usd Limited
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2013
Tp Limited
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2013
Smith & Nephew, PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2011
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
