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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: council-for-a-strong-america.
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.
28 filings
$479K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
27 filings
$381K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$280K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
21 filings
$281K on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
11 filings
$177K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
9 filings
$100K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$38K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
1 filing
$7K 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.
115th Congress
Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act
7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1169114th CongressJuvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 667110th CongressEducation Begins at Home Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
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.
15 filingsthrough 2018
John ConnollyCouncil for a Strong America10 filingsthrough 2024
Taylor HuhnCouncil for a Strong AmericaCovered position: Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS-03), Legislative Assistant, 2014-2017 Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), Intern, 201310 filingsthrough 2021
Colleen CastleCouncil for a Strong America8 filingsthrough 2024
Cristin Datch KumarCouncil for a Strong AmericaCovered position: Legislative Assistant, House Education and Workforce Committee (2012-2015) and Rep. Bilirakis (2007-2009)5 filingsthrough 2016
Brian CahillCouncil for a Strong AmericaCovered position: Chief LC, Offc. of Sen. Lautenburg 04-085 filingsthrough 2011
Katy WalkerCouncil for a Strong America5 filingsthrough 2009
Miriam RollinCouncil for a Strong America5 filingsthrough 2009
Jonathan ElkinCouncil for a Strong America3 filingsthrough 2023
Krista HecklerCouncil for a Strong America1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 4 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
