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.
Fees billed to clientsIts own lobbying spend
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 they lobby for
Every client this registrant has billed a fee to represent, by fees reported.
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: secular-coalition-for-america.
Secular Coalition for AmericaExpenses basis
68 filings · 2008–2026
$212K
reported as expenses · also billed as fees
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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 $8K in fees and $212K in expenses.
HCR · 1 client
32 filings
$46K on those filings
Constitution
CON · 1 client
31 filings
$112K on those filings
Religion
REL · 1 client
30 filings
$112K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
28 filings
$63K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
27 filings
$40K on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM · 1 client
27 filings
$40K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
23 filings
$40K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
20 filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
12 filings
$81K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
11 filings
$40K 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.
Covered position:
9 filings1 client · through 2021
Larry Thomas DeckerCovered position: Special Assistant, U.S. Treasury, President Bill Clinton7 filings1 client · through 2018
Diana Jones CastilloCovered position: Legislative Manager7 filings1 client · through 2016
Sean Faircloth7 filings1 client · through 2011
Edwina Rogers6 filings1 client · through 2013
Lori Lipman Brown6 filings1 client · through 2009
Mark DannCovered position: Director of Governmental Affairs5 filings1 client · through 2019
Chris Lombardi5 filings1 client · through 2013
Amanda Knief5 filings1 client · through 2012
Ron Millar1 filing1 client · through 2009
Covered positions · 7 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
