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.
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: continental-casualty-company.
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.
HOM
14 filings
$790K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Torts
TOR
9 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Accounting
ACC
7 filings
$270K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
6 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$50K 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.
119th Congress
Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act
5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1821119th CongressTackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1740118th CongressTo amend the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to establish payment and performance security requirements for projects, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2936118th CongressHighway Accident Fairness Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3548116th CongressCARES Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5488118th CongressProtecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9922118th CongressLitigation Transparency Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2805118th CongressProtecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2022
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.
J Patrick Cave
Mindset Advocacy, LLC
Covered position: Assistant Secretary, Dept of Treasury (Acting)
19 filingsthrough 2015
Zachary K OstroMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Robin Kelly14 filingsthrough 2025
Chris BrownMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, House Financial Services Committee11 filingsthrough 2022
Lauren BakerMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen Rob Portman9 filingsthrough 2019
Ben DupuyMindset Advocacy, LLC6 filingsthrough 2011
Dana GreshamMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Doug Jones2 filingsthrough 2021
Scott ShewcraftMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Foster1 filingthrough 2026
Katherine BonnerMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Lloyd Smucker; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jeb Bradley; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jeb Bradley; Staff and Press Assistant, Rep. Jeb Bradley1 filingthrough 2026
Douglas LeeMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director to Rep. Mike Quigley1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 10 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
