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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
83 filings
$10M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
56 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Insurance
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.Con.Res. 28118th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that tax-exempt fraternal benefit societies have historically provided and continue to provide critical benefits to the people and communities of the United States.13 filingsthrough 2024
S.Con.Res. 8118th CongressA concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that tax-exempt fraternal benefit societies have historically provided and continue to provide critical benefits to the people and communities of the United States.13 filingsthrough 2024
Melissa Francis (Formerly Bonicelli)Venn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director for Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer (R-TX).67 filingsthrough 2025
Tim CareyVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director for U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA). Deputy Legislative Director for Representative Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA).23 filingsthrough 2018
The filings
The 20 most recent of 85 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: thrivent-financial-for-lutherans.
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.
INS
24 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Retirement
RET
23 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$970K on those filings
Banking
BAN
4 filings
$680K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
4 filings
$430K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$280K 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.
Expressing the sense of Congress that tax-exempt fraternal benefit societies have historically provided and continue to provide critical benefits to the people and communities of the United States.
12 filingsthrough 2026
S.Con.Res. 6119th CongressA concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that tax-exempt fraternal benefit societies have historically provided and continue to provide critical benefits to the people and communities of the United States.12 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2891119th CongressIRA Charitable Rollover Facilitation and Enhancement Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1165118th CongressData Privacy Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 8152117th CongressAmerican Data Privacy and Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3950111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Sharon BrosnanThrivent Financial for LutheransCovered position: Vice President, Government Affairs
22 filingsthrough 2026
Kevin Joseph DowlingVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Lee Zeldin20 filingsthrough 2024
Justin Robert LiveseyVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Aide - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)17 filingsthrough 2026
Bradford HewittThrivent Financial for Lutherans2 filingsthrough 2010
Matthew ScottVenn StrategiesCovered position: Senior Legislative Aide, Legislative Assistant - Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY); Investigative Clerk - U.S. House Committee on Ethics; Clerk on Advice and Education, Staff Assistant - U.S. House Committee on Ethics1 filingthrough 2023
Andrew BlockVenn StrategiesCovered position: Counsel and Senior Legislative Assistant to Congressman Mike Bishop (R-MI)1 filingthrough 2019
Brian CaseyThrivent Financial for Lutherans1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 9 of 31 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
