PEN AMERICA

Lobbying for PEN AMERICA · nonprofit

Filing 3rd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

3rd Quarter 2025

July 1 - Sep 30 · Posted Oct 20, 2025

Expenses

$10,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

New York

Official filing document

Government bodies contacted 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE
State, Dept of (DOS)

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Bills named in this filing 5

HR 5300
Department of State Policy Provisions Act
S 2296
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
HR 5527
Stop Censoring Military Families Act
HRES 797
Expressing concern about the growing problem of book banning and the proliferation of threats to freedom of expression …
SRES 443
A resolution expressing concern about the growing problem of book banning, and the proliferation of threats to freedom …

Lobbying activity 2

Foreign Relations

H.R.5300, Department of State Policy Provisions Act Issues related to Jailed writers, Defending Freedoms Project of the Lantos Human Rights Commission

Civil Rights/Civil Liberties

S.2296, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 H.R.5527, Stop Censoring Military Families Act H.RES.797, Expressing concern about the growing problem of book banning and the proliferation of threats to freedom of expression in the United States S.Res.443, A resolution expressing concern about the growing problem of book banning, and the proliferation of threats to freedom of expression in the United States Issues related to censorship at Department of Defense run schools Issues related to book bans at military service academies Issues related to transnational repression

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.