MICHAEL R SMYTHERS JR

Earlier government jobs, as reported

A lobbying report lists each lobbyist's covered positions: jobs in Congress or the executive branch that the law asks a lobbyist to disclose. Each line is copied as a report states it.

No report we hold lists a covered position for MICHAEL R SMYTHERS JR.

Registrants and clients

• BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY · 1 report

Clients: BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY.

Bills named where this lobbyist is listed, and how the House and the Senate voted

66 bills named in these reports. 1 of them became law, and our record holds how the House and the Senate voted on it. A lobbying report names the houses of Congress and the agencies the lobbyists contacted. It does not say which members or staff they met.

Issues named: Budget/Appropriations (1), Defense (1), Environment/Superfund (1), Homeland Security (1), Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace (1), Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice (1), Railroads (1), Taxation/Internal Revenue Code (1), Trade (domestic/foreign) (1), Transportation (1).

Every report

Campaign gifts this lobbyist reported

Lobbyists and registrants report their political contributions twice a year (form LD-203). We hold these reports only for contributions to the campaign committees of members who sponsored or cosponsored a bill named in a lobbying report. Any other contribution: Not checked yet.

No contribution report we hold lists a gift from this filer.

Where this comes from

Lobbying Disclosure Act reports (LD-2), LDA.gov. We save our own copy of each page of LDA.gov's list of reports before we read it. These pages were built from our copies on October 16, 2026.

2026-Q2: every page of LDA.gov's list saved and read.

A lobbying report states the registrant's income from the client (a lobbying firm) or its own lobbying expenses (an organization lobbying for itself), for the whole quarter and every issue together. A report of less than $5,000, or of no lobbying activity, states no figure. It is not the amount spent on one bill.

Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.