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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
27 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
27 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4291118th CongressLocal News and Broadcast Media Preservation Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
Erik Robert OlsonVenn StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff; Rep. Ron Kind28 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin SteinbergVenn StrategiesCovered position: Senior Advisor, Dept of Energy (DOE); Office Director, DOE; Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, DOE; Energy Security Spec, DOE; Deputy Staff Director, DOE; Sr. Program Mgr, Office of the Fed Environmental Exec, Exec Office of the President28 filingsthrough 2026
Emma J. BishopVenn Strategies15 filingsthrough 2023
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: amsted-industries.
8 filings
$310K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
8 filings
$310K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$90K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$80K 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.
116th Congress
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Kyle AmitayVenn Strategies14 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew SigmonVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director - Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH)13 filingsthrough 2026
Melissa Francis (Formerly Bonicelli)Venn Strategies8 filingsthrough 2010
