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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
44 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
27 filings
$820K on those filings
Insurance
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1165118th CongressData Privacy Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
Melissa Francis (Formerly Bonicelli)Venn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director for Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer (R-TX).40 filingsthrough 2025
Kevin Joseph DowlingVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Lee Zeldin18 filingsthrough 2023
Tim CareyVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director for U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA). Deputy Legislative Director for Representative Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA).15 filingsthrough 2018
Skylar BorchardtVenn Strategies
The filings
The 20 most recent of 54 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: securian-financial-group.
INS
8 filings
$236K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$20K 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.
117th Congress
American Data Privacy and Protection Act
1 filingthrough 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.
Covered position: Intern for Senator Al Franken (D-MN)
11 filingsthrough 2021
Justin Robert LiveseyVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Aide - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)9 filingsthrough 2026
Erik Robert OlsonVenn StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI)6 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer TaftVenn Strategies6 filingsthrough 2026
Michael LanzaVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Counsel for House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA)6 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew BlockVenn StrategiesCovered position: Counsel and Senior Legislative Assistant to Congressman Mike Bishop (R-MI)2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
