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PROJECT ON PREDATORY STUDENT LENDING

Lobbying client · Massachusetts · filed 2025 to 2025

Legal advocacy group defending student borrowers from predatory practices in colleges

$65,000 Reported spend
7 Filings counted
2 Outside firms hired
2 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 7 filings. The LDA keeps a separate client record for every registrant that files for a client, so this page adds up 2 records, one per registrant listed below. Records are combined when the client name matches once case, punctuation and endings such as Inc. or LLC are set aside; for a city, county or port the state has to match as well.

 Who filed for this client 2

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

 Bills named in these filings 2
  • S. 994
    PROTECT Students Act of 2025
    2 filings
  • H.R. 1
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act
    1 filing
 Reported by year 1 year
  • 2025 $65,000 7 filings
 Issues lobbied 2

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

 Agencies and chambers lobbied 2
  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 4
  • SENATE 4
 Recent filings 7 total
Q4 terminationNo activity
THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC
4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · posted Jan 20, 2026
View → Q3 reportNo activity
THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC
3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · posted Oct 16, 2025
View → Q2 termination
BATIE & ASSOCIATES, LLC
2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $20,000 income · posted Jul 21, 2025
View → Q2 report
THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC
2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $5,000 income · posted Jul 21, 2025
View → Q1 report
BATIE & ASSOCIATES, LLC
1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $20,000 income · posted Apr 21, 2025
View → Q1 report
THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC
1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $20,000 income · posted Apr 21, 2025
View → Registration
BATIE & ASSOCIATES, LLC
1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · posted Mar 11, 2025
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Filings through , the newest posted date on this record. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, synced daily. Money is self-reported by the filer and often rounded. Lobbying is legal, disclosed activity.

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