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Money / PACs

Council for Responsible Nutrition

Trade association PAC FEC C00399659

Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$9K
Trade association lobbying, all issues $590K

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the trade association’s own LD-2 reports, all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000 each quarter. Two different filers, same 21 months.Lobbying: all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Two filers, same 21 months. This PAC gives money raised from the trade association’s employees or members; the trade association itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

Method

Council for Responsible Nutrition reported federal lobbying in 8 of the last 8 quarters (Q4 2024 to Q3 2026), with its own in-house lobbyists and 2 outside firms. What follows is what the filings say it lobbied on, not which way.

Issue areas ranked by quarters filedQ4 24 → Q3 26

  • Defense8 of 88/8
  • Health Issues8 of 88/8
  • Taxation/Internal Revenue Code8 of 88/8
  • Trade (domestic/foreign)6 of 86/8
  • Environment/Superfund3 of 83/8

From the filings

“All legislative proposals related to the inclusion of dietary supplement purchases within tax-deductible Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts (HSAs/FSAs) H.R. 8933 and S. 4587 (Dietary Supplements Access Act).”
Q3 2026 filing · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
“Monitored the NDAA for any issues related to the dietary supplements industry.”
Q3 2026 filing · Defense

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate
  • Food & Drug AdministrationFDA
  • CommerceDOC
  • U.S. Trade RepresentativeUSTR
  • Health & Human ServicesHHS
  • Treasury

The House and Senate appear in every quarter; agencies in all 8 quarters.

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Source: Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (LD-2) by Council for Responsible Nutrition, Senate Office of Public Records. Filings are due 20 days after each quarter ends.

From FEC filings: direct gifts this PAC reported, net of refunds · How we count

Gave directly to 5 sitting members of Congress in 2025–26.

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