Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 13 clients
246 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Education
EDU · 14 clients
212 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Telecommunications
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Jon Bernstein273 filings16 clients · through 2026
Alexandra Bernstein70 filings5 clients · through 2020
Lisa Rosenberg42 filings3 clients · through 2014
Erin Martin13 filings3 clients · through 2009
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Pearson PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2021
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 303 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
National Council for Languages and International Studies
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: bernstein-strategy-group.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $3.9M in fees and $0 in expenses.
TEC · 8 clients
122 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
21 filings
$430K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 2 clients
10 filings
$110K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
6 filings
$70K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 2 clients
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Retirement
RET · 1 client
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS · 1 client
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
1 filing
$10K 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 money 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.
